Lot #768: ANDY WARHOL - Ads Suite - Color offset lithographs

                 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Ads Suite [the complete set of 10 announcement/invitation cards in the original printed folder - a "mini portfolio"]".
Medium: Color offset lithographs.
Date: Composed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 6 x 4 1/4 in. (152 x 108 mm).
Lot Note(s): Each signed in black marker by Warhol. Edition c250. Light cream smooth wove paper. Full margins as issued. Fine impressions. Fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Undoubtedly to be included in the forthcoming revised edition of the catalogue raisonne of Warhol's ephemera by Paul Marechal. cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.350-359. Provenance: Property of a New York City (Brooklyn) collector. Comment(s): This "mini-portfolio" is very rare and highly sought after, especially since the set of 10 ‘Ads’ 38”x38” silkscreens fetched $1,025,000 at Christie's, New York, 11/13/2014, lot #389. “Gordon’s Print Prices” does not report a sale of an unsigned or signed set at auction, stretching back to 1985. The lot includes all of the 10 cards along with the original printed folder. Each card is identified verso with the title, date, copyright and trademark info, etc. The images in the portfolio are: Apple, Blackglama (Judy Garland), Chanel, Life Savers, Mobil, Paramount, Rebel without a Cause (James Dean), The New Spirit (Donald Duck), Van Heusen (Ronald Reagan), and Volkswagen. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York City. Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York City. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29786-1-6000]