SANTA CLAUS, 1981 (FROM ‘MYTHS’ SERIES)
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ARS/Copyright Agency, 2019
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ANDY WARHOL
(1928 – 1987, American)
SANTA CLAUS, 1981 (FROM ‘MYTHS’ SERIES)
colour screenprint with diamond dust on Lenox Museum Board
96.0 x 96.0 cm
edition: artist’s proof 9/30, aside from an edition of 200
signed and numbered in image lower right: A/P 9/30 Andy Warhol
Estimate:
$20,000 – 30,000
Sold for $32,940 (inc. BP) in Auction 58 - 28 August 2019, Sydney
Provenance
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne (stamped and label attached verso)
Private collection, Melbourne
Sotheby’s, Melbourne, 2 October 1994, lot 292 (as ‘Father Christmas’)
Private collection, Victoria
Exhibited
Andy Warhol’s Myths, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, 15 September – 17 October 1981 (another example)
Literature
Feldman, F., and Schellmann, J., Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, third edition, 1997, cat. II.266, pp. 9, 27, 118, 119 (illus., another example), 270