Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987)


Rats & Star (Feldman & Schellmann IIIB.21) Unique screenprint in colours, 1983, on Lenox Museum Board, annotated UP 31.06 and initialled T.J.H. in pencil verso, with the stamps of The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts verso, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, the full sheet, in very good condition Sheet 813 x 1016mm.
|This is a colour variant for the image which was produced for an album cover by the Japanese band Rats and Star. The name was born from the idea that people from less privileged backgrounds, such as the impoverished areas of Tokyo, can rise from poverty to pop stardom, which struck a chord with Warhol as the son of working-class immigrants.