Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973. photo Philips de Pury & Co

acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen; 50 x 42 in. (127 x 106.7 cm). Initialed and dated “A.W. 73” along the overlap. Lot 8. Estimate $9,000,000-12,000,000

PROVENANCE : Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto
Roger Davidson Collection
Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, Contemporary Art Part I, November 13, 1991, lot 45
Collection of Jon and Mary Shirley
Private Collection

EXHIBITED : Paris, Musée Galliera, Andy Warhol: Mao, February 23 – March 18, 1974
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson Collection of International Art, January 17 – March 22, 1987

LITERATURE : R. Crone, Andy Warhol, 1976, no. 317 (illustrated)
Selections from the Roger and Myra Davidson Collection of International Art, Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1987, p. 77 (illustrated)
G. Frei and N. Printz, The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne; Paintings and Sculpture 1970-1974, New York, 2002, p. 206, no. 2306 (illustrated)