With a market for Munch and Warhol seeing some slowsown in demand at the October print sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, it will be interesting to see how a unique Andy Warhol impression based on a famous image by Edvard Munch fares later in the year.
“Eva Moducci (After Muncj”, a 3ft 6in x 2ft 8 in (1.02×81 cm)silkscreen in colours which Warhol produced in 1984, will appear at Bloomsbury Auctions in their modern and contemporary prints sale on December 4. From a private US collection, it has an authentication stamp from the Warhol Foundation and is in excellent condition.
Warhol was commissioned by Norwegian company to make this work along with four other impressions of iconic Munch images from “The Frieze of Life series”. Munch’s image depicts his lover, the British violinist Eva Mudocci, whom he met in Paris between 1901 and 1903. The silkscreen will have an £80.000 - 120.000 estimate.