Lot #1759: ANDY WARHOL & MICHEL HOSSZU - Homage to Warhol - Original color screenprints

         

Artist: Andy Warhol & Michel Hosszu (American/Hungarian, 20th Century).
Title: "Homage to Warhol [stamps]".
Medium: Original color screenprints.
Date: Composed 1987.
Dimensions: Overall size: (support sheet) 17 11/16 x 12 5/8 in. (449 x 321 mm). Image size: (each stamp) 2 x 1 3/16 in. (51 x 30 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and stamped by Hosszu on the verso of the support sheet. Edition of c250. Fine impressions. Fine condition for the stamps; support sheet creased horizontally in lower part of sheet, well away from stamps. Provenance: Private collection, Norway, thence to our consignor. Comment(s): Very scarce. Few sets survive. The complete group of six different color combination stamps based on Warhol’s “Self-Portrait” of 1967. Please see the attached article from “New York Magazine,” February 29, 1988, for a full rendition of the creation and distribution of these stamps. According to Borje Bengtsson these stamps were given away as gifts from Warhol’s Studio to close friends. [29382-3-400]