Andy Warhol, Mammy (from the Myth Series) (F&S II.262), no-medium, 1981

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Mammy (from the Myth Series) (F&S II.262), 1981

no-medium

colour screenprint with diamond dust on Lenox Museum Board signed and numbered 124/200 lower right; with Andy Warhol copyright stamp 1981 on the reverse. Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York

38 × 38 in (96.5 × 96.5 cm) (sheet)

Auction Estimate:$35,000 - $50,000

Sale date:November 16 - 30, 2021

Price Realized

$36,000

(including Buyer's Premium)

Provenance

Private Collection, Toronto

Literature

Frayda Feldman and Jörg Schellmann, (eds.), “Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1962-1987”, 4th edition revised and expanded, 2003, second printing 2015, listed page 122 and 217, reproduced page 123, cat. no. II.262

Warhol based Mammy on a photograph he took of Sylvia Williams in costume.