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    • WARHOL’S MAO, REMBRANDT’S FAUST AT SOTHEBY’S

    ANDY WARHOL 1928 - 1987 MAO Screenprint in colours, 1972, signed in ballpoint pen, numbered 69/250, printed by Styria Studio, Inc., New York, published by Castelli Graphics and Multiples, Inc., New York (£20,000-30,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: This made £25,000.

    REMBRANDT VAN RIJN 1606-1669 FAUST Etching with drypoint and engraving, circa 1652 (£50,000-70,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: This was unsold.

    Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints will come under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London on September 27. There are rare-to-market works in a variety of categories. Works by Dürer and Rembrandt highlight the Old Masters section. There are Modern and Contemporary works by Miró, Degas, Picasso and Warhol among others.  The sale of 181 lots is expected to realise between £1,500,000 – 2,300,000.  UPDATE:  The sale of Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints brought a total of £1,704,988 against a pre-sale estimate of £1,478,800-2,145,700. It was 78.5% sold by lot and 82.5% sold by amount.  The top lot was a Rembrandt self portrait  at the window which made £106,850.

    PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973 LE REPAS FRUGAL Etching, 1904, from La Suite des Saltimbanques, from the edition of 250, printed by Louis Fort, published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1913 (£50,000-70,000). Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS MADE £85,250

    JOAN MIRÓ 1893 - 1983 CENTENNAIRE POUR L'IMPRIMERIE MOURLOT (MOURLOT 190) Lithograph printed in colours, 1953, signed in pencil, inscribed E.A. (an artist's proof aside from the edition of 75), printed and published by Mourlot, Paris, on Arches wove paper (£15,000-20,000). Click on image to enlarge. UPDATE: THIS MADE £34,850

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