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The Marx Brothers (F. & S. II.232) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1980 - MyArtBroker

The Marx Brothers (F. & S. II.232)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 200

Year: 1980

Size: H 101cm x W 81cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Andy Warhol's The Marx Brothers (F. & S. II.232) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £35,000 and £50,000. This screenprint, created in 1980, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. This is a popular work, having been sold 11 times at auction since its initial sale in May 2006. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £28,320 in May 2021 to £30,559 in October 2020. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £25,023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2021Bonhams New York United States
October 2020Sotheby's New York United States
April 2018Sotheby's New York United States
March 2015Christie's London United Kingdom
October 2014Christie's New York United States
May 2013Christie's New York United States
April 2013Wright United States

Meaning & Analysis

This print shows an image of the three Marx Brothers, Chico, Groucho and Harpo, based on a still frame from the 1946 film A Night in Casablanca. The Marx Brothers shot to fame with their comedy acts throughout the early to mid 20th century where they featured in vaudeville, Broadway and in motion pictures. Warhol repeats the photographic image three times across the print, the black ink fading with each iteration, and he uses abstract, collage-like blocks of orange, blue and purple colour to transport the image into the 1980s Pop Art context.

For this series, Warhol chose only to depict subjects posthumously and so had to source images from archival material for each print. This charged the images with an inescapable theme of mortality appearing as if behind a veneer of modernity, their person belonging to the past whilst their image endures in the present. Using a mixture of hand drawn lines, abstracted geometric shapes, bright colours, and the original photographic image, Warhol sustains the tension between representation and reality that points to the artificial surface image of fame in the 1980s.

  • 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.

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