Life Savers (F. & S. II.353)
Life Savers (F. & S. II.353)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£50,000-£80,000
$100,000-$160,000 Value Indicator
$90,000-$140,000 Value Indicator
¥460,000-¥740,000 Value Indicator
€60,000-€100,000 Value Indicator
$490,000-$790,000 Value Indicator
¥9,450,000-¥15,130,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 190
Year: 1985
Size: H 96cm x W 96cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2024 | Swann Galleries | United States | |||
| October 2023 | Rago | United States | |||
| July 2023 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| June 2023 | Rago | United States | |||
| April 2023 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| July 2020 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| July 2020 | Phillips New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
Printed in 1985, Life Savers (F. & S. II.353) is a screen print by Andy
Warhol that attests to his lifelong interest in popular imagery surrounding
the world of advertising and mass media. The subject of the print is Life
Savers candies, a highly successful consumer product in the ‘80s,
encapsulating American mass culture that continued to fascinate Warhol
until the late stage of his career.
Rendered in warm, highly saturated colours, three rows of ring-shaped
candies occupy the upper part of the print against a pastel pink
background. The distinctive package of candies is featured below words
advising the viewer, ‘please do not lick this page!’. Recreating the
company’s advertising slogan in the bottom part of the print and placing
the playful message at the centre, Warhol’s Life Savers celebrates the alluring nature of commercial products.
Life Savers is the final print of Warhol’s Ads series commissioned by
Ronald Feldman Gallery in New York. As in the case of the nine other screen prints the Ads series consists of, Life Savers was signed in pencil by the artist. Emerging in 1985, Ads were preceded by the Dollar Sign series (1981) that used the common monetary sign to touch upon the traps of commodification, wealth, and luxury.
In his final thematic portfolio, Warhol explores these issues further,
recreating popular products that range from the Volkswagen car to the
Chanel No. 5 perfume bottle and appropriating the likeness of public
figures such as James Dean and Ronald Regan. In choosing these people
and objects as its subject matter, the Ads series plays with the notions of
high and low culture, problematizing the world of commodity and
commercial production.
