Andy Warhol Parrot (Toy Painting)

World Goes Pop: Five Works by Andy Warhol from an Important Private Collection
Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987

Parrot (Toy Painting)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
14 by 11 in.
35.6 by 27.9 cm.
Executed in 1983.

This work is stamped twice by the Estate of Andy Warhol and twice by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., and numbered VF PA20.074 on the overlap. This work is also numbered PA20.074 on the stretcher.

Condition Report:
This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of handling along the edges. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. Upon very close inspection, a pinpoint and unobtrusive white accretion is visible in the blue below the parrot's beak. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.

Provenance:
Estate of Andy Warhol
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., New York
Martin Lawrence Galleries
Acquired from the above in 2000 by the present owner