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Goethe (F. & S. II.272) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1982 - MyArtBroker

Goethe (F. & S. II.272)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

£60,000-£90,000Value Indicator

$120,000-$190,000 Value Indicator

$110,000-$170,000 Value Indicator

¥590,000-¥880,000 Value Indicator

€70,000-€100,000 Value Indicator

$640,000-$960,000 Value Indicator

¥11,830,000-¥17,750,000 Value Indicator

$80,000-$120,000 Value Indicator

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97 x 97cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 100

Year: 1982

Size: H 97cm x W 97cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: December 2024

Value Trend:

6% 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
December 2024
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
N/A
N/A
N/A
May 2024
Uppsala Auktionskammare
Sweden
October 2023
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
June 2023
Karl & Faber
Germany
June 2023
Ketterer Kunst Hamburg
Germany
May 2023
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
December 2022
Karl & Faber
Germany
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The value of Andy Warhol’s Goethe (F. & S. II.272) is estimated to be worth between £60,000 and £90,000. This signed screenprint from 1982 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. There have been 16 total sales at auction since its initial sale in May 2002. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £65,000, across 1 total sale. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £41,438 in October 2023 to £105,137 in December 2022. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

Goethe (F. & S. II.272) 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 black and white, with pops of yellow, blue and green, 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.