Lot #617: ANDY WARHOL - The Brooklyn Bridge #1 - Original color silkscreen

 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "The Brooklyn Bridge #1".
Medium: Original color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1983.
Dimensions: Overall size: 36 3/16 x 24 5/16 in. (919 x 618 mm). Image size: 21 1/2 x 21 5/8 in. (546 x 549 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $2,400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $3,000/4,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker by Warhol. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. Light cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Good to very condition with only very minor defects. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.290; Paul Marechal, "Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Posters, 1964-1987," #32.
Comment(s): A scarce poster, rare when signed. According to 'Gordon's Art Reference' the auction record for a signed impression (as ours) is $3,889 at Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 6/28/2005, lot #395. The most recent sale of a signed impression that we could find was for $3,000 at Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, 2/27/2018, lot #12132. The design was created by Warhol to mark the centenary of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1983. A smaller version of this poster was used for Art Expo NY in the same year. Published by Impress Graphics, Port Chester, New York. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28527-6-2400-NA]