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Goethe (F. & S. II.272) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1982 - MyArtBroker

Goethe (F. & S. II.272)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

£60,000-£90,000Value Indicator

$120,000-$180,000 Value Indicator

$110,000-$160,000 Value Indicator

¥550,000-¥830,000 Value Indicator

70,000-110,000 Value Indicator

$590,000-$880,000 Value Indicator

¥11,490,000-¥17,230,000 Value Indicator

$80,000-$110,000 Value Indicator

5% AAGR

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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.272) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £60,000 and £90,000. This screenprint, created in 1982, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has an auction history of 16 total sales since its entry to the market in May 2002. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £41,438 in October 2018 to £105,137 in December 2022. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £54,654, with a total of 2 sales. 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 2024Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
May 2024Uppsala Auktionskammare Sweden
October 2023Bonhams Los Angeles United States
June 2023Karl & Faber Germany
June 2023Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
May 2023Bonhams New Bond Street United Kingdom
December 2022Karl & Faber 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 black and white, with pops of yellow, blue and green, 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.

  • 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.