Andy Warhol
Merce Cunningham I , 1974 (Executed)
Lot #163 |
2023-12-15 |
Sotheby's, New York
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Online Auction
Category:
Drawing
Estimate:
USD 10,000 - 15,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11372
Auction name: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Online Auction
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2023-12-15
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century Japanese Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 30 by 20 in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
76.3
Width In Centimeters:
50.9
Height In Inches:
30
Width In Inches:
20
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Edition: 100
Edition notes: Edition 87/100.
Year notes: Executed in 1974.
Provenance
Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner
Exhibited
Jouey-en-Josas, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art; Prague, Narodni Galeri v Praza; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstammlung; Budhapest, Muczarnok; Belgrade, Muzej Savvemene Umetnosti; and Warsaw, Uzeum Narodove W Warszawie, 15 June 1990 - 28 July 1991 New York, Blum Helman Gallery, Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary: Art Works and Commissioned Portraits by Painters and Photographers , 1988
Literature
Fraya Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987 , New York 2003, p. 89, no. II.124 illustrated in color (another example illustrated) Tom Armstrong et al., Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980 - 81 , New York 1981, vol. 3 p. 40 (another example) Judith Goldman, Prints Acquisitions 1974 - 1984 , The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, p. 94 (another example illustrated) Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary: Art Works and Commissioned Portraits by Painters and Photographers) , New York 1988, p. 22 Riva Castleman, Exh. Cat., Jouey-en-Josas, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Prints of Andy Warhol , 1990, p. 122 (another example)
Catalog summary
Andy Warhol 1928 - 1987 Merce Cunningham I signed in pencil and numbered 87/100 (on the verso) screenprint on Japanese gift wrapping paper sheet: 30 by 20 in. (76.3 by 50.9 cm.) Executed in 1974; this impression is number 87 from the edition of 100 plus 30 artist's proofs, co-published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., and with the artist's copyright stamp on the verso. Provenance Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner Literature Fraya Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 - 1987 , New York 2003, p. 89, no. II.124 illustrated in color (another example illustrated) Tom Armstrong et al., Bulletin of the Whitney Museum of American Art 1980 - 81 , New York 1981, vol. 3 p. 40 (another example) Judith Goldman, Prints Acquisitions 1974 - 1984 , The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984, p. 94 (another example illustrated) Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary: Art Works and Commissioned Portraits by Painters and Photographers) , New York 1988, p. 22 Riva Castleman, Exh. Cat., Jouey-en-Josas, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, The Prints of Andy Warhol , 1990, p. 122 (another example) Exhibited Jouey-en-Josas, Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art; Prague, Narodni Galeri v Praza; Dresden, Staatliche Kunstammlung; Budhapest, Muczarnok; Belgrade, Muzej Savvemene Umetnosti; and Warsaw, Uzeum Narodove W Warszawie, 15 June 1990 - 28 July 1991 New York, Blum Helman Gallery, Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale (Merce Cunningham Dance Company 35th Anniversary: Art Works and Commissioned Portraits by Painters and Photographers , 1988