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Andy
Warhol
Queen
NTOMBI TWALA
Date of Issue:
November 13, 1995
1985, serigraph,
The Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art, Medzilaborce
Graphic lay-out: Martin Cingovsky
Stamp Engraving: Milos Ondracek
Printing: Postal Stationery
Printing House, Prague Print
Technology: Recess printing from flat plates
Print Run: 400,000
FDC Motif: Flowers, 1974, colors serigraph
FDC Engraving: Milos Ondracek
Cancellation Design: Jozef Balaz
FDC Printing: Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague
Print Technology: Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run: 10,000
© 1996 by Ministry of Transport,
Posts and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic
One of Andy Warhol's
characteristic modes of expression as an artist lay in his fondness for
taking as his themes famous symbols, trademarks labels and celebrities.
The result was numerous portfolios of figures from politics, art and
history. One of these is the 1985 series Reigning Queens, consisting of 16
serigraphs: four color portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Margrethe
II, Queen Beatrix and Queen Ntombi Twala.
The Andy Warhol Museum of Modem
Art at Medzilaborce (until July 28th, 1996 the Warhol Family Museum of
Modem Art) possesses the last of these works in a form marked TP (trial
proof) and signed in tusche at the bottom left. The dimensions are 100.3cm
x 80cm. Printed by Warhol on rag paper, this silkscreen proof was one of a
series of only thirty, a fact undoubtedly contributing to not only the
artistic, but also the monetary value of the work. This print of the Queen
Ntombi Twala portrait in the Andy Warhol Museum is numbered TP 26/30.
The printer of Warhol's celebrated
Reigning Queens portfolio was Rupert James Smith.
Dr. Michal Bycko
We have several FDC sets
available at US $25.00
If you are interested in getting one
please send check to:
Vladimir Linder
3804 Yale Street, Burnaby, BC,
V5C 1P6, CANADA
Phone/Fax: 604-291-8065
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