Name: Fiesta Pig (F. & S. II.184)
Brand: Andy Warhol
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Andy Warhol’s Fiesta Pig (F. & S. II.184) is estimated to be worth between £16,000 and £25,000. This signed screenprint, created in 1979, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. This artwork has an auction history of 19 total sales since its entry to the market on 24th September 2003. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £16,000, with 5 works sold. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £14,464 in June 2024 to £21,449 in October 2022. The average return to the seller during this time was £14,707. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

Meaning & Analysis

Fiesta Pig (F. & S. II.184) is a screen print on Arches 88 paper produced by the beloved Pop Artist Andy Warhol. Made in 1979, the print comes in an edition size of 200 and was commissioned by the German newspaper, Die Welt. In this print, Warhol depicts the remnants of a party in bright and vibrant colours. The artist humorously adds a pink pig to the print who appears to be curiously sniffing the leftover plates and glasses.

The print captures Warhol’s signature colour-blocking technique in which the artist uses contrasting colours to draw attention to the subject matter, in this case the pig and abandoned plates. The use of bold colours and the incorporation of the pig brings surreal undertones to this print making it stand out from Warhol’s other prints which have a more realist tone.

Warhol adored the glitz and glamour of the celebrity world and often hosted parties at his New York studio, The Factory, for the hottest stars to come together, drink and dance. Fiesta Pig (F. & S. II.184) is imbued with the hedonistic excess that Warhol was drawn to and resonates with other prints by the artist, such as After The Party (1979) which depicts a similarly decadent scene.

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.