ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Beethoven, 1987
101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in)
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York
Publisher: Hermann Wűnsche Bonn, Germany
Edition: 60, 15 AP, 10 PP, 20 numbered in Roman numerals, 72 individual TP not in portfolios
Materials: From the portfolio of four screenprints on Lenox Museum Board
Markings: Numbered in pencil and signed in pencil on verso by the executor of The Estate of Andy Warhol, the publisher, and the printer on a stamped certificate of authenticity
Catalogue: Feldman & Schellmann, II.393
Additional Notes:
Beethoven, 1987
101.6 x 101.6 cm (40 x 40 in)
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York
Publisher: Hermann Wűnsche Bonn, Germany
Edition: 60, 15 AP, 10 PP, 20 numbered in Roman numerals, 72 individual TP not in portfolios
Materials: From the portfolio of four screenprints on Lenox Museum Board
Markings: Numbered in pencil and signed in pencil on verso by the executor of The Estate of Andy Warhol, the publisher, and the printer on a stamped certificate of authenticity
Catalogue: Feldman & Schellmann, II.393
Additional Notes:
Posthumously stamped in black on verso and bears the printer’s chop mark. There are also paintings of this subject.
Based on Karl Josef Stieler’s 1819 painting Beethoven, in the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, Germany; the musical notes are from Beethoven’s 1801 Moonlight Sonata, Opus 27, no.2.