Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987). Title: "Mao [announcement]". Medium: Color offset lithograph. Date: Composed 1972. Dimensions: Overall size: 6 7/8 x 13 3/4 in. (175 x 349 mm). Image size: 6 7/8 x 6 7/8 in. (175 x 175 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, center right. Edition of c250. Smooth wove light cream paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Condition: fold as issued; very good + overall. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Paul Marechal, “Andy Warhol Ephemera…Catalogue Raisonne, 1950-1987.” Lyon, France: Les amis du Musee de l’Imprimerie, 2018, Section 8c, no.30; cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.93. Comment(s): Unusually scarce and highly sought after, especially since the set of 10 Mao editioned screenprints fetched $2,538,592 at Sotheby's London (May 22, 2012, lot #31). Our example, the announcement for the series, is seldom at auction - the auction record for a signed example is $16,517 at Sotheby's London, March 27, 2007, lot #263A. A more recent sale of a rare signed announcement was a sale at $7,904 (€5,796) at Millon & Associes, Paris, 6/25/2014, lot #102. Original 4-page multi-colored card folder issued prior to publication of the Mao silkscreen set of ten, one illustrated full-sized on the cover, the other nine verso, along with the information as to the portfolio printed inside right in English, inside left in Chinese. As can be seen from the price list (illustrated but not part of this lot), the portfolio was available for $4,500 to the public, $2,400 by subscription. The edition was co-published by Multiples, Inc., New York, and Castelli Graphics, New York and printed at Styria Studio. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28111-1-2400]