Auction 75 DESIGN AND 20TH CENTURY DECORATIVE ARTS / POST-WAR, POP AND URBAN ART
Feb 25, 2020 (your local time)
Italy
 Piazza Lovatelli, 1 00186 - Roma

A hundred years of Fine Arts and design / A selection of Pop Art works

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LOT 189:

Andy Warhol - Pittsburgh 1928 — New York 1987 Serigrafia a colori su Lenox Museum Board Space Fruit: Still Lifes - ...

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Andy Warhol - Pittsburgh 1928 — New York 1987 Serigrafia a colori su Lenox Museum Board Space Fruit: Still Lifes - Cantaloupes I
1979

Cm. 76.2 x 101.6
Signed and numbered on the lower right on the front. On the back stamped in black 'Andy Warhol' and dated in pen. Screen printing is part of the portfolio of six different 'Space Fruit' Ref. Catalog Raisonne 'Feldman & Shellmann 1962-1987, N.II. 201: Cantaloupes I Multiple 1 / 250. Prinnt : Rupert Jasen Smith and Joe Grippi, New York Editor : Grippi/Zivian.Inc., New York


The 1979 Space Fruit: Still Lifes portfolio includes: Cantaloupes II, Watermelon, Apples, Cantaloupes I, Peaches, Pears.
The works are based on the photographs of Ronnie Cutrone, Andy Warhol's assistant who worked side by side with the master of pop, on paintings, prints and films from 1972 to 1980, the most productive and prestigious years of the New York artist.