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Flowers (F. & S. II.73) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1970 - MyArtBroker

Flowers (F. & S. II.73)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

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¥9,940,000-¥13,910,000 Value Indicator

$70,000-$90,000 Value Indicator

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91 x 91cm, Edition of 250, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 250
Year: 1970
Size: H 91cm x W 91cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: October 2022
Value Trend:
1% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
October 2022
Phillips New York
United States
$60,000
$70,000
$90,000
October 2019
Sotheby's New York
United States
October 2019
Phillips New York
United States
October 2018
Sotheby's New York
United States
April 2017
Sotheby's New York
United States
April 2016
Sotheby's New York
United States
October 2015
Phillips New York
United States
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The value of Andy Warhol’s Flowers (F. & S. II.73) is estimated to be worth between £50,000 and £70,000. This signed screenprint, created in 1970, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 1%. This work has an impressive auction history, having been sold 20 times at auction since its initial sale on 3rd November 1998. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £47,882 in December 2017 to £56,918 in September 2018. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

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Meaning & Analysis

The Flowers (F. & S. II.73) print is somewhat menacing in character, despite the light-heartedness of the subject matter. Due to Warhol’s manipulation of colour, the pink, purple and orange hibiscus flowers display a garish quality and the background of undergrowth is flattened into light green green. Produced in the years following Warhol’s Death and Disaster paintings, Thirteen Most Wanted Men portraits and the portraits of Jackie Kennedy following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Flowers series is unexpected in its subject matter. Warhol is said to have used the flowers motif as a symbol of purity and fragility amidst widespread violence, his psychedelic colour palette strongly linked to the rise of the Flower Power movement of the 1960s.

In his choice of bright colours and simplified form, Warhol creates an aesthetically pleasing print, however the Flowersseries references subversive and subliminal themes surrounding the existence of death in life. Warhol used flowers as symbols of nature’s ephemerality and the fleeting impermanence of beauty. Death was a frequent theme in Warhol’s life and work, as such, alongside images of Jackie Kennedy, Marylin Monroe, skulls, electric chairs and car crashes, these brightly coloured flowers became the perfect abstract tool to capture the brevity of life on canvas.

  • 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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