Flowers (F. & S. II.69)
Flowers (F. & S. II.69)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£45,000-£70,000Value Indicator
$90,000-$140,000 Value Indicator
$80,000-$130,000 Value Indicator
¥410,000-¥640,000 Value Indicator
€50,000-€80,000 Value Indicator
$440,000-$690,000 Value Indicator
¥8,610,000-¥13,400,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 250
Year: 1970
Size: H 91cm x W 91cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| June 2023 | Van Ham Fine Art Auctions | Germany | |||
| June 2022 | Bonhams New Bond Street | United Kingdom | |||
| December 2021 | Sotheby's Milan | Italy | |||
| March 2021 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| October 2019 | Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris | France | |||
| April 2019 | Christie's New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
Flowers (F. & S. II.69) is a print from Andy Warhol’s Flowers series (1970), a set of 10 screen prints showing one of his most recognisable motifs, four hibiscus flowers flattened and set against a backdrop of greenery. This print is rendered in excessively saturated hues of pink, purple and yellow, the flowers flattened into the blocked colour and the grassy undergrowth manipulated into a contrasting two-toned pattern of yellow and pink.
First appearing in his 1964 solo exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, entitled Flower Paintings, Warhol revisited the hibiscus motif and the subject of flowers more widely throughout his entire career. In this series, Warhol appropriates a photograph from a 1964 issue of Modern Photography by Patricia Caulfield, dramatically heightening the contrast and adding vivid colour to create a more abstract image exploring pattern and form. As a ground-breaking example of appropriation art at its best, Flowers (F. & S. 69) reflects Warhol’s obsession with the commercial process of screen printing and the ‘machine-like’ aesthetic consumer culture.
Manipulating the original photograph to its extremes by turning the hibiscus flowers into splashes of unnaturalistic colour against a fluorescent pattern of undergrowth, Warhol questions traditional notions of fine art, originality and authorship. Using a synthetic colour palette of brilliant colours, Warhol reduces to subject of nature to the kitsch aesthetic of mass-produced consumer products.
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.
