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Goethe (F. & S. II.271) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1982 - MyArtBroker

Goethe (F. & S. II.271)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

£40,000-£60,000Value Indicator

$80,000-$120,000 Value Indicator

$70,000-$110,000 Value Indicator

¥390,000-¥580,000 Value Indicator

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$420,000-$630,000 Value Indicator

¥7,980,000-¥11,980,000 Value Indicator

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96 x 96cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 100
Year: 1982
Size: H 96cm x W 96cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: September 2024
Value Trend:
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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2024
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
£34,000
£40,000
£48,000
May 2024
Grisebach
Germany
June 2023
Karl & Faber
Germany
June 2023
Sotheby's Paris
France
December 2022
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
April 2022
Bukowskis, Stockholm
Sweden
December 2021
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
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The value of Andy Warhol’s Goethe (F. & S. II.271) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £40,000 to £60,000. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once at auction, with an average selling price of £40,000. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £40,000 in September 2024 to £121,176 in December 2021. The average annual growth rate of this work is 12% and it has an auction history of 16 total sales since its entry to the market in November 2003. This work is a part of a limited edition of 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

Goethe (F. & S. II.271) is based on a painting of Goethe by Johan Tischbein, regarded as the most famous portrait in Germany. Much like his works inspired by the Mona Lisa in 1963, Warhol takes the original iconic painting and subverts it to call into question high art ideals on originality, authorship and what constitutes the value of art. In this iteration of the image, Warhol has removed the landscape background to focus instead on Goethe’s profile, in the style of his portraits from the 1960s of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe..

This portrait is produced with stark contrasts of colour with pops of red, pink, blue and yellow against a light blue backdrop, working to flatten the original image and render Goethe’s profile into a piece of Pop Art. Warhol also uses graphic lines to contour the image and presents a dichotomy between classical portraiture and the resulting Pop aesthetic. By staging Goethe, a figure of the classical past, as a superstar in the present, Warhol reflects on how mass media can change public perception of reality.

  • 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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