'Mao' by Andy Warhol, 2012
Limited Edition Skateboard Deck collab. with Alien Workshop for the 'Iconic Collection'.
Officially licensed by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Based on Warhol's 'Mao' from 1972-1973.
8.25 x 31.75 Inches
Screen print on 7-ply Canadian Maple hardwood skate deck.
Limited Edition (Sold Out).
Top-print includes printed signature of the artist.
New in great condition in original packaging with Sk8 of the Art COA.

*Note: Skate Deck wall hangers sold separately.

ABOUT THE ART

"Andy Warhol showed a great deal of interest in the Chinese political situation in 1971:

'I have been reading so much about China. They’re so nutty. They don’t believe in creativity. The only picture they ever have is of Mao Zedong. It’s great. It looks like a silkscreen'.

The following year he created a portrait of the communist leader based on a photograph from his famous Little Red Book – ‘The thoughts of Chairman Mao’. Like many of his 1970s portraits, Warhol’s Mao paintings are much more painterly than his Pop works of the 1960s with strong, colourful brushwork clearly visible.

The 'Mao' poster is for a Warhol exhibition at the Hokin Gallery, Chicago. The show opened in 1977, the year the Cultural Revolution in China officially ended following Mao’s death in 1976."