Lot #213: ANDY WARHOL - Flowers - Original color silkscreen

 

Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Flowers ["Blue & Green"]".
Medium: Original color silkscreen.
Date: Composed 1978.
Dimensions: Overall size: 27 1/2 x 27 1/2 in. (698 x 698 mm). Image size: 24 3/8 x 24 3/8 in. (619 x 619 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $2,400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $3,000/3,500
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, lower right. Edition size unspecified, presumed small. Cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression. Very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Feldman/Schellmann pp.213-214; II.64-73.
Comment(s): Very scarce, and rare signed. The auction record for the same image of this print (signed and by a different printer) is $3,600 realized at Swann Galleries, NYC, February 5, 2013, lot 251. This "Flowers" image is slightly different from those of the limited edition published in 1970. According to Feldman/Schellmann (pg. 214, fourth edition, 2003) "prints exist which differ from the published edition (example illustrated on previous page)." The example illustrated on pg. 213 is our example, with different colors. Based on a photograph of hibiscus flowers by Patricia Caulfield in "Modern Photography," June, 1964. The text lower left to right reads: "Andy Warhol - Flowers - Silk Screen - 1964 - coll. Harry N. Abrams - © 1978 Leo Castelli Gallery - Posters Original, Ltd. No. M 57." Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [29230-6-2400-NA]