Name: Ladies And Gentlemen (F. & S. II.130)
Brand: Andy Warhol
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Andy Warhol’s Ladies And Gentlemen (F. & S. II.130) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,500 and £8,500. This screenprint, created in 1975, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of 19 total sales since its entry to the market in October 2004. In the last 12 months, the hammer price has ranged from £5,051 in May 2025 to £9,500 in March 2023. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £5,808. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 125.

Meaning & Analysis

Part of one of Andy Warhol’s largest body of works, the Ladies & Gentlemen series (1975), the screen print Ladies & Gentlemen (F. &. S. II.130) is a portrait of Wilhelmina Ross, a transgender woman and drag performer who featured in 73 of Warhol’s paintings. Taking over 500 Polaroids of his 14 subjects for the series, meant that Warhol could explore the identities of his sitters in an intimate setting. It was widely known that Warhol would sit with the models after a taking their photos to agree on their favourite images.

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Given that Warhol was best known for his depictions of world-famous celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Elizabeth Taylor, the anonymity of the subjects in Ladies & Gentlemen makes a departure from his earlier works. Though there has been a renewed interest in the identity of the sitters, most remained unknown until 2014 when their names were published by the Warhol Foundation. Warhol was fascinated by the mechanism of fame, but he was also interested in the way that identity can be performed through images. Working with sitters who were transgender, drag queens, and gender non-conforming afforded him the opportunity to explore the complexities of identity and gender.

Warhol’s portrait of Ross exudes glamour and femininity, showing her wearing a very large hat coloured with pink hues. She looks upwards to the viewer with an open gaze and her lips pronounced. By enlarging these portraits and bringing them into the realm of fine art, Warhol challenges traditional notions of beauty and gender, showing that everyone can be beautiful.