$51,200
JANE FONDA, F/S #II. 268, 1982 Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board Signed and numbered in pencil “TP 25/25 Andy Warhol” with printer’s blindstamp; stamped with © Andy Warhol 1982 seal on the reverse 39 1/2 by 31 1/2 inches NOTE This work was published to raise funds for the Tom Hayden campaign for the California State Assemblyman PROVENANCE Gift from the Artist LITERATURE Frayda Feldman & Jörg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, DAP/Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Milan, 2003, cat. no. IIIC.1, p. 124, another colored edition illustrated. Andy Warhol’s colorful portraits of Jane Fonda show a daring and emblazoned Fonda in the height of her 1970’s Barbarella fervor. Warhol’s penchant for capturing, studying and creating celebrity through his print making process defined American cultural consciousness. Everyone in America knew who Fonda and what Fonda was – the definition of an elite sex symbol who graced the silver screen with a joie-de-vivre that was unobtainable. By creating her image in print form of an edition of 100 with 20 artist proofs, 3 printer’s proofs and 25 trial proofs, Warhol made the unobtainable, attainable. Warhol and Fonda are said to have become acquainted with one another during Fonda’s infamous marriage to director/producer Roger Vadim. The two frequented Warhol’s most renowned watering hole outside of the Factory, Max’s Kansas City, a restaurant-nightclub located on Park Avenue South, w
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2016-09-23
