
Santa Claus (Feldman & Schellmann II.266)
Andy Warhol's 1981 screenprint reimagines Santa Claus as a Pop Art icon, employing his signature technique of mass production and commercial printing methods to elevate a holiday figure into fine art. The work incorporates diamond dust, a material Warhol favored during this period to create luminous, jewel like surfaces that reference both fine art tradition and consumer culture aesthetics. Published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, this numbered edition of 190 exemplifies Warhol's exploration of American mythology and the commodification of cultural symbols through repetition and mechanical reproduction.
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- Screenprint in colours with diamond dust, 1981, signed and numbered from the edition of 190 in pencil, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, with his blindstamp, published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Inc., New York, with their rubber-stamp verso, on Lenox Museum Board, the full sheet printed to the edges, sheet 965 x 965mm (38 x 38 in) (unframed), Condition, Related Lots, BACK TO AUCTION CATALOGUE, Takashi Murakami (b.1962) And then and then and then and then and then (Aqua Blue), Estimate: £500 - 700,
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Prints & Works on Paper 1500-2026
March 31, 2026
Lot 131
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