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Most Wanted Men No. 3, Ellis Ruiz B. by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Most Wanted Men No. 3, Ellis Ruiz B., 1964

Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
121.9 x 99.4 cm (47.99 x 39.13 in)
Paintings
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (11 May 2011)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
May 11, 2011
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale24
$****** - ******
Most Wanted Men No. 3, Ellis Ruiz B.
Nov 10, 2009
Christie'sNew YorkPost-War & Contemporary Evening Sale19
$****** - ******
Most Wanted Men No 3, Ellis Ruiz B
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

121.9 x 99.4 cm (47.99 x 39.13 in)

Materials

acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas

Signature

signed with stamp 'Andy Warhol' (on the overlap)

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York. Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich. Daros Collection, Zurich.

Private collection, Europe.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, The Thirteen Most Wanted Men, April 1967, no. 5. Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Andy Warhol: Most Wanted, September-October 1967. London, Rowan Gallery, Andy Warhol, March 1968. Pasadena Art Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Einhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum; Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; London, Tate Gallery; and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Andy Warhol, May 1970-July 1971, no. 11 (Eindhoven), no. 35 (Paris), pp. 72 and 93, no. 35 (London; illustrated). Kunsthaus Zurich, Andy Warhol, May-July 1978, pp. 128 and 208, no. 94 (illustrated). New York, Gagosian Gallery, Andy Warhol: Most Wanted Men, April-June 1988, no. 6. Houston, The Menil Collection, Andy Warhol: Death and Disasters, October 1988-January 1989, p. 111, no. 36 (illustrated). Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Andy Warhol: Paintings 1960-1986, July-September 1995, pp. 114 and 164, no. 29 (illustrated in color). Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Andy Warhol, 1960-1986, September-December 1996, p. 106, no. 37 (illustrated). Zurich, Daros Collection, Warhol, Polke, Richter: In the Power of Painting I: A Selection from the Daros Collection, May-September 2001, p. 68 (illustrated in color). Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; London, Tate Modern; and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Andy Warhol: Retrospektive, October 2001-August 2002, p. 194, no. 131 (illustrated in color).

Literature

R. Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, pp. 206 and 302, no. 394 (illustrated). J. Coplans, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 137 (illustrated in color). P. Gidal, Andy Warhol: Films and Paintings, New York, 1971, pp. 76-77 (illustrated). R. Crone, Die revolutionäre Ästhetik Andy Warhols, Stüttgart, 1972, p. 39 (illustrated). R. Crone, Das bildnerische Werk Andy Warhols, Berlin, 1976, p. 269, no. 711 (illustrated). Andy Warhol: Ein Buch Zur Ausstellung Im Kunsthaus Zürich, exh. cat., Zurich, 1978, pp. 128 and 208, no. 94 (illustrated). K. McShine, Andy Warhol. A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York and Paris, 1989-1990, p. 286 and 478, no. 290 (illustrated in color). G. Frei and N. Printz, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture, 1964-1969, vol. 02A, New York, 2004, pp. 32, 50 and 383, no. 552, fig. x2 (illustrated in color). T. Shafrazi, ed., Andy Warhol: Portraits, London and New York, 2007, pp. 51 and 305 (illustrated in color). R. Dergan and B. Monk, eds., Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection, exh. cat., New York, 2009, pp. 29, 177 and 180-181 (illustrated).