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Goethe (F. & S. II.270) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1982 - MyArtBroker

Goethe (F. & S. II.270)
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

¥8,510,000-¥13,230,000 Value Indicator

$60,000-$90,000 Value Indicator

8% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 100

Year: 1982

Size: H 97cm x W 97cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Andy Warhol’s Goethe (F. & S. II.270) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £45,000 and £70,000. This screenprint, created in 1982, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 8%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of 14 total sales since its entry to the market in April 2008. In the past 12 months, there have been no sales, however, over the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £31,167 in May 2020 to £85,680 in September 2022. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2023Lempertz, Cologne Germany
September 2023Lama United States
June 2023Karl & Faber Germany
December 2022Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
September 2022Christie's London United Kingdom
May 2020Christie's New York United States
June 2019Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany

Meaning & Analysis

Goethe (F. & S. II.272) is based on a painting of Goethe by Johan Tischbein, regarded as the most famous portrait in Germany. Much like his works inspired by the Mona Lisa in 1963, Warhol takes the original iconic painting and subverts it to call into question high art ideals on originality, authorship and what constitutes the value of art. In this iteration of the image, Warhol has removed the landscape background to focus instead on Goethe’s profile, in the style of his portraits from the 1960s of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe.

This portrait is produced with stark contrasts of colour with pops of brown, blue, orange and beige against a light pink backdrop, working to flatten the original image and render Goethe’s profile into a piece of Pop Art. Warhol also uses graphic lines to contour the image and presents a dichotomy between classical portraiture and the resulting Pop aesthetic. By staging Goethe, a figure of the classical past, as a superstar in the present, Warhol reflects on how mass media can change public perception of reality.