The New Spirit (Donald Duck) (F. & S. II.357)
The New Spirit (Donald Duck) (F. & S. II.357)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
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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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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2024 | Sotheby's London | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2023 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| July 2022 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| December 2020 | Artcurial | France | |||
| October 2019 | Phillips New York | United States | |||
| April 2019 | Sotheby's New York | United States | |||
| April 2017 | Christie's New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
Printed in 1985, The New Spirit (Donald Duck) (F. & S. II.357) is a screen print by Andy Warhol depicting an image of Donald Duck originating from an animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions in 1942. This print was released in a limited edition of 190.
Printed on Lenox Museum Board, this dynamic print is rendered in bold and saturated colours, characteristic of Warhol’s iconic Pop Art style. Donald Duck is captured in movement, marching across the print, in front of a repeated series of four other Donalds, adding to the sense of dynamism in this image. Warhol’s use of organic and gestural lines in blue and green delineate Donald Duck’s figure and mark an evolution in Warhol’s screen printing from the ‘machine-like’ aesthetic of his earlier prints such as the Campbell’s Soup series.
The New Spirit (Donald Duck) (F. & S. II.357) is part of the Ads series, produced by Warhol two years before his death. Like many of the prints in the Ads series, Warhol used this image to comment on the impact of mass media in capitalist America. The short film, The New Spirit, from which this image originates was a wartime propaganda film encouraging American citizens to pay their income tax. It was the first film created as part of Walt Disney’s World War II propaganda production. Using a highly saturated colour palette, Warhol transforms this image of Donald Duck from a propaganda film made 42 years ago into a 1980s pop icon.
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.
