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Andy Warhol
Joseph Beuys, 1980/1983.
Silkscreen in colors with rayon satin finish
Post auction sale: € 14,000 / $ 15,960
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125
Andy Warhol
Joseph Beuys, 1980/1983.
Silkscreen in colors with rayon satin finish
Post auction sale: € 14,000 / $ 15,960
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Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987

Joseph Beuys. 1980/1983.
Silkscreen in colors with rayon satin finish.
Signed and numbered. Verso with the copyright stamp. One of 45 Trial Proofs. On Lenox Museum cardboard. 101.6 x 81.3 cm (40 x 32 in), nearly the full sheet.

Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York (with the blind stamp). Published by Edition Schellmann & Klüser, Munich/New York (with the copyright stamp on the reverse). [AW].

• Two masters: Warhol immortalizes Beuys in a work that also bears witness to his own artistic understanding.
• The idea for the portrait series originated in 1979 during Beuys’ highly acclaimed retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
• Beuys’s preferred material, felt, is reflected in the haptic quality of the color silkscreen.
• Unique due to its custom coloring.
• Warhol’s Beuys portraits are represented in renowned museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Tate London, and the Philadelphia Art Museum
.

PROVENANCE: Private Collection Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi, Andy Warhol Prints. A catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, CR no. IIB. 242-244 (illustrated in color on p. 182, this copy).





Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Andy Warhol "Joseph Beuys"
This lot can only be purchased subject to regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.

Regular taxation:
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The share of the hammer price exceeding 2,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 2,000,000 €.
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The statutory VAT of currently 19 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.

Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
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another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

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