Flowers (F. & S. II.72)
Flowers (F. & S. II.72)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
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$340,000-$590,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 250
Year: 1970
Size: H 92cm x W 92cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Christie's London | United Kingdom | |||
| December 2018 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| October 2018 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| April 2018 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| December 2017 | Bonhams New York | United States | |||
| October 2015 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| September 2014 | Wright | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
Taken from the artist’s Flowers series (1970), Flowers (F. & S. II.72) is one of Andy Warhol’s most identifiable prints showing four hibiscus flowers in excessively saturated colours. This print is exemplary of the way in which Warhol appropriated and abstracted images to convey underlying political commentaries that are not necessarily apparent upon first look.
The Flowers (F. & S. II.72) print is somewhat menacing in character, despite the light-heartedness of the subject matter. Due to Warhol’s manipulation of colour, the yellow hibiscus flowers display a garish quality and the background of undergrowth is flattened into a contrasted vivid green. Produced in the years following Warhol’s Death and Disaster paintings, Thirteen Most Wanted Men portraits and the portraits of Jackie Kennedy following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Flowers series is unexpected in its subject matter. Warhol is said to have used the flowers motif as a symbol of purity and fragility amidst widespread violence, his psychedelic colour palette strongly linked to the rise of the Flower Power movement of the 1960s.
In his choice of bright colours and simplified form, Warhol creates an aesthetically pleasing print, however the Flowers series references subversive and subliminal themes surrounding the existence of death in life. Warhol used flowers as symbols of nature’s ephemerality and the fleeting impermanence of beauty. Death was a frequent theme in Warhol’s life and work, as such, alongside images of Jackie Kennedy, Marylin Monroe, skulls, electric chairs and car crashes, these brightly coloured flowers became the perfect abstract tool to capture the brevity of life on canvas.
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.
