John Lennon
Signed Print

Name: John Lennon
Brand: Andy Warhol
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Andy Warhol

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 36

Year: 1986

Size: H 102cm x W 102cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Meaning & Analysis

John Lennon is a signed screen print made by the renowned Pop artist Andy Warhol in 1986. The print comes in an edition size of 36 and shows the iconic English singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the founder and co-lead of the British band, the Beatles. Against a bold red backdrop, Warhol produces a portrait of Lennon looking directly out of the print with a neutral yet warm gaze. Lennon is captured from the shoulders up and is drawn wearing his signature round glasses. Warhol uses a variety of brightly coloured crayon-like lines to delineate Lennon’s facial features and hair, adding texture to the otherwise flat style of the print.

The print was made to be the cover art for Lennon’s second solo album, Menlo Ave. Yoko Ono, Lennon’s wife and Warhol’s close friend, asked Warhol to produce this design. Yoko Ono herself was a famous Japanese-American artist and Warhol spent a lot of time partying with her and Lennon in New York. The album was released just a few months before Lennon’s shocking death.

Warhol produced a large number of portraits of notable figures ranging from stars of popular culture like John Lennon, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe to political figures like Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin and Richard Nixon. Warhol’s portraits capture the artist’s fascination with celebrity status and stardom and his interest in the way in which people can be memorialised through art.

Andy Warhol was a leading figure of the Pop Art movement and is often considered the father of Pop Art. Born in 1928, Warhol allowed cultural references of the 20th century to drive his work. From the depiction of glamorous public figures, such as Marilyn Monroe, to the everyday Campbell’s Soup Can, the artist challenged what was considered art by blurring the boundaries between high art and mass consumerism. Warhol's preferred screen printing technique further reiterated his obsession with mass culture, enabling art to be seen as somewhat of a commodity through the reproduced images in multiple colour ways.

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