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Mao (F. & S. II.92) - Signed Print by Andy Warhol 1972 - MyArtBroker

Mao (F. & S. II.92)
Signed Print

Andy Warhol

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91 x 91cm, Edition of 250, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 250

Year: 1972

Size: H 91cm x W 91cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: May 2025

Value Trend:

19% AAGR

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Location
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May 2025
Sotheby's New York
United States
$30,000
$40,000
$50,000
April 2025
Christie's New York
United States
February 2025
Lama
United States
January 2025
Phillips London
United Kingdom
October 2024
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
June 2024
Phillips London
United Kingdom
December 2023
Sotheby's New York
United States
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The value of Andy Warhol’s Mao (F. & S. II.92) is estimated to be worth between £30,000 and £45,000. This signed screenprint, created in 1972, has shown consistent value growth, with an impressive average annual growth rate of 19%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold 5 times with an average selling price of £31,027. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £25,000 in September 2023 to £74,673 in April 2021. Since its first sale in November 1998, this piece has been sold 37 times at auction. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

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Meaning & Analysis

In this iteration of Warhol’s print, Mao’s face is depicted in a sickly yellow and his lips are turquoise green working to make a spectacle of the Chinese statesman without him knowing. By repeating his image many times over the course of a screen print series, Warhol portrays Mao as a commodity to be dispersed as a piece of mass-media in capitalist America.

Warhol explores a multitude of colour variations across the series to render each print unique,thus symbolically opposing the ideals of communism that Mao wished to uphold. Taking this point further, Warhol adds gestural dark lines to each print as a display of individualism, reminiscent of the American Abstract Expressionists. Deliberately misaligning the photographic image with the coloured ink layered on top, Warhol creates a jarring visual effect that makes this image both humorous and menacing.

  • 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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