Description:The Committee 2000 was an organization which worked on projects to commemorate the year 2000. Plans were started in the early 1980s and Andy Warhol created this work to help raise funds on their behalf. It is a fun and whimsical piece with a celebratory undertone. Anticipating the millennia festivities, Warhol has included a depiction of horns, party hats, and confetti, arranged in a geometric pattern; the entire composition resonates a mechanical quality, highlighted with bright pink outlines, hues of yellow, teal, blue, and purple.
Created in 1982, this work is hand signed by Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) in pencil in the lower right. Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York on Lenox Museum Board out of the total edition of 2,000 (aside from 200 AP, 25 PP, 50 HC, and 5 TP) and numbered 990/2000 in pencil in the lower right. Published by Committee 2000, Munich, Germany, the piece has been stamped on the verso in red ink: ‘© Andy Warhol 1982.’
Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
This Warhol screenprint is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work) :
1. Feldman, F. & Schellmann, J. (2003) . Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, 4th ed. Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.: New York. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné no. II.289 on pg. 128. Further detail on pg. 218.
About the Framing:
Committee 2000 is featured in a custom designed, modern box frame with a sleek, black moulding. The contemporary frame style encases and further features the modernity and grandiose size of the work. All materials are archival and to museum quality standards. The framing is completed white, linen-wrapped mats set behind an archival Plexiglas® cover.
