WARHOL, ANDY
1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA - 1987 New York
Title: Goethe.
Date: 1982.
Technique: Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum card.
Depiction Size: 96.5 x 96.5cm.
Notation: . Signed and numbered.
Publisher: Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich; Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (publisher).
Number: 94/100.
Frame: Framed.
The sheet is blind-stamped by the printer Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Verso is the copyright stamp of the artist and the publisher.
Provenance:
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature:
- Feldman, Frayda/Schellmann, Jörg: Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, Milan 2003 (4th ed.), cat. rais. no. IIB.273, ill.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the epitome of German classicism, becomes an icon through Warhol's reinterpretation into an icon of pop art
- After Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein's painting 'Goethe in the Roman Campagna', which is owned by the Städel Museum in Frankfurt
- From the 4-part portfolio in an attractive colour variant.
