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Life Savers (F. & S. II.353) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1985 - MyArtBroker

Life Savers (F. & S. II.353)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

£50,000-£80,000Value Indicator

$100,000-$160,000 Value Indicator

$90,000-$140,000 Value Indicator

¥460,000-¥730,000 Value Indicator

60,000-100,000 Value Indicator

$490,000-$780,000 Value Indicator

¥9,570,000-¥15,310,000 Value Indicator

$60,000-$100,000 Value Indicator

9% 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: 190

Year: 1985

Size: H 96cm x W 96cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Andy Warhol's Life Savers (F. & S. II.353) is estimated to be worth between £50,000 and £80,000. This signed screenprint, created in 1985, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 9%. This work has an impressive auction history, having been sold 15 times since its initial sale in January 2008. In the past 12 months, the average selling price was £54,759, across one total sale. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £34,759 in July 2020 to £66,431 in July 2023. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £44,181. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 190.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2024Swann Galleries United States
October 2023Rago United States
July 2023Sotheby's New York United States
June 2023Rago United States
April 2023Sotheby's New York United States
July 2020Sotheby's New York United States
July 2020Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

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.

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