Live Auction 15474Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Lot 105 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, MILAN

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

VW Beetle

Closed7 March 2018

Price Realised

GBP 175,000

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Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
VW Beetle
stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamps and numbered 'PA69.028' (on the overlap)
synthetic polymer and silkscreen ink on canvas
16 ¼ x 19 7/8in. (41.3 x 50.5cm.)
Executed in 1969-1970

The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, New York.
Private Collection, California.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 4 February 2004, lot 2.
Private Collection, Milan (acquired at the above sale).

Specialist note

‘Once you ‘got’ Pop, you could never see a sign again the same way again. And once you thought Pop, you could never see America the same way again’
–Andy Warhol