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Pete Rose (F. & S. II.360B) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1985 - MyArtBroker

Pete Rose (F. & S. II.360B)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

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100 x 80cm, Edition of 50, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 50

Year: 1985

Size: H 100cm x W 80cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: October 2019

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October 2019
Cowan's Cincinnati
United States
£6,261
£7,366
£9,208
October 2017
Cowan's Cincinnati
United States
February 2002
Christie's New York
United States
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The value of Andy Warhol’s Pete Rose (F. & S. II.360B) is estimated to be worth between £13,500 and £20,000. This signed screenprint, created in 1985, has an auction history of three sales since its entry to the market on 19th February 2002. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Meaning & Analysis

Scheduling conflicts meant that Rose could not sit for Warhol and instead the artist bought the rights to a photograph that appeared in an instructional manual on baseball techniques called Pete Rose on Hitting, taken by the Cincinnati photographer Gordon Bear. The print appropriates the imagery of a baseball card to frame Rose, showing the player in a right-handed batting stance. Bright yellow pervades the image, with vivid purple gestural marks and red to outline the figure.

Warhol had never heard of Rose before this work was commissioned for $100,000 and as a later work, this print plays into the artist’s reputation as a ‘business artist’. Notably his use of the baseball card format, engages with the idea of art as a saleable commodity to be commercialised and branded. Baseball cards are collectible, negotiable items that are brightly coloured and mass-produced, and this is enlarged into the realm of high art to create Warhol’s Pete Rose print.

  • 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.