Contemporary Day Auction

Andy Warhol

Tunafish Disaster

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Andy Warhol

1928 - 1987

Tunafish Disaster

silkscreen ink and silver paint on canvas

41 by 22 in.

104.1 by 55.9 cm.

Executed in 1963.

This work is stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol and stamped twice by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and numbered PA57.016 on the overlap.

Estate of Andy Warhol

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in 1999 by the present owner

Georg Frei and Neil Printz, The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture 1961-63, vol. 1, London, 2002, no. 378, p. 347, illustrated in color

Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Andy Warhol, Death and Disaster, November 2014 - February 2015, no. 8, pp. 46 and 125, illustrated in color

Paris, Gagosian, Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, June - July 2023