Silkscreen in colors on slightly structured cardboard
Germany, 2007
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) – American artist, graphic artist and filmmaker
With a blindstamp with the artist’s signature lower left
Inscribed lower right in pencil within a printed copyright and edition stamp ‘H.C.’ /500
With a stamp ‘Original Licensed Product Andy Warhol Cars for ArtMerchandising & Media AG © Andy Warhol Foundation/DaimlerChrysler AG’
With copyright annotation in the lower margin ‘© Andy Warhol Foundation/DaimlerChrysler AG / Licensed by ArtMerchandising & Media AG, www.artmm-ag.com. Published by teNeues Verlag, Kempen, Germany, 2007.’
Image dimensions: 40.5 x 60.5 cm
Very good condition
Andy Warhol was a co-founder of the US-American Pop Art and is considered its most important representative; original large format silkscreens fetch up to 231,000 euro at international auctions

In 1986 Mercedes Benz commissioned Andy Warhol with a complete series of historic Mercedes models. But from the planned 80 works of 20 models Warhol was able to complete only 36 silkscreens of eight models. This posthumous print, authorized by the Warhol Foundation shows the between 1954 and 1957 distributed Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing from this ‘Cars’ series.

The silkscreen in colors is lower left provided with the blindstamp with the artist’s signature. Lower right it is inscribed in pencil within a printed copyright and edition stamp ‘H.C.’ /500. Lower right there is the stamp ‘Original Licensed Product Andy Warhol Cars for ArtMerchandising & Media AG © Andy Warhol Foundation/DaimlerChrysler AG’. In the lower margin the copyright annotation is printed ‘© Andy Warhol Foundation/DaimlerChrysler AG / Licensed by ArtMerchandising & Media AG, www.artmm-ag.com. Published by teNeues Verlag, Kempen, Germany, 2007.’. The sheet is in very good condition. The image measures 40.5 x 60.5 cm, the sheet 69.1 x 85.7 cm.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol, founder and leading figure of the American Pop Art, was born in 1928 as a son of a Russian family in Pennsylvania. He began his career as an artist by creating advertising graphics. Already in 1956, he presented his graphic works at the Museum of Modern Art. In the early 1960s Warhol began experimenting with different techniques and started focusing on typically American objects of the consumer society, as for example Campbell’s soup cans or Coca Cola bottles. In 1962 Warhol started with his series of portraits of famous stars, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, who were then at the height of their career. His renowned studio ‘The Factory’ was a meeting point for internationally successful artists, actors and musicians. As early as the 1970s galleries started exhibiting Warhol’s work, which is now part of some of the most famous collections, such as the Modern Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the d’Art Moderne in Paris. (fea)

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