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Andy Warhol’s Black Marilyn, 1967, artist’s proof, screenprint in colors, estimate $175,000-$200,000. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com and Creighton-Davis Galleries.

Warhol’s Black Marilyn tops the bill at Creighton-Davis, Sept. 9

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Andy Warhol’s Black Marilyn, 1967, artist’s proof, screenprint in colors, estimate $175,000-$200,000. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com and Creighton-Davis Galleries.
Andy Warhol’s Black Marilyn, 1967, artist’s proof, screenprint in colors, estimate $175,000-$200,000. Image courtesy LiveAuctioneers.com and Creighton-Davis Galleries.

ROCKVILLE, Md. – Looking every bit the star that she was, Marilyn Monroe is ready for her closeup in Crieghton-Davis Galleries’ Sept. 9 Fall Sale, with Internet live bidding provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.

The luminescent film star will appear on the auction block in the form of Black Marilyn (estimate $175,000-$200,000), one of a series of screenprints printed in color from Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Portfolio. The Black Marilyn is considered by many to be Warhol’s most important graphic.

Created in 1967, the work to be auctioned is signed in pencil on verso by Warhol. The catalog description reads as follows: “an artist’s proof lettered “W,” aside from the numbered edition of 250 (there were 26 artist proofs designated A-Z), as published by Factory Additons, New York; printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products Inc., N.Y. Literature: Recorded and illustrated in the standard text on the original graphics of the artist by Feldman and Shellmann (1997), No. II-29. Provenance: Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, 2002.”

The work can be shipped in its frame as glazed with UV3 Plexiglas.

The 200+ lot sale also includes two Warhol watercolors and works by many other highly collectible artists, e.g., Picasso, Chagall, Miró, Calder, Botero, Hockney and Lichtenstein.

Visit the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.

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