Lot #503: ANDY WARHOL - Rauschenberg Family (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) - Color offset lithograph

 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Rauschenberg Family (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men)".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Printed 1982.
Dimensions: Overall size: 19 x 14 1/4 in. (483 x 362 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $1,600
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $2,500/3,000
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, lower left. Edition size unspecified, presumed very small. Light cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Good condition; quarter-folded with resulting creases, other creasing from subsequent improper rolling, pale staining upper margin; in spite of these defects actually presents very well.
Comment(s): A very rare poster. No auction records located. For the exhibition "Andy Warhol: A Graphic Retrospective" held February 26 to March 20, 1982, at the Koh Gallery, Tokyo. The "Rauschenberg Family" (silkscreen on canvas - 1963) was one of the works exhibited. It is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Undoubtedly to be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of Warhol's non-commissioned posters by Paul Marechal. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28766-3-1600-NA]