Live Auction 21759Post-War to Present
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Lot 181

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Mao

Closed10 March 2023

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USD 138,600

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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Mao
signed, initialed, and dated twice 'Andy Warhol 1973 AW 73'; stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol stamp and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts stamp and numbered '43.002' (on the reverse)
graphite on paper
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1973.

Estate of the artist and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., New York
Stellan Holm, Inc., New York
Private collection, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Michael Crichton, Los Angeles
His sale; Christie's, New York, 11 May 2010, lot 11
Private collection
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 10 November 2015, lot 162
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“If Warhol can be regarded as an artist of strategy, his choice of Mao as a subject—as the ultimate star—was brilliant.”
—K. McShine, Andy Warhol Retrospective, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, p. 19.