Joseph Beuys In Memoriam (F. & S. II.371)
Joseph Beuys In Memoriam (F. & S. II.371)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£7,500-£11,500Value Indicator
$16,000-$24,000 Value Indicator
$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator
¥70,000-¥110,000 Value Indicator
€8,500-€13,500 Value Indicator
$80,000-$120,000 Value Indicator
¥1,490,000-¥2,290,000 Value Indicator
$10,000-$16,000 Value Indicator
There aren't enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.
81 x 61cm, Edition of 90, Screenprint
Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 90
Year: 1986
Size: H 81cm x W 61cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: February 2024
Value Trend:
AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
TradingFloor
Auction Results
Track auction value trend
Meaning & Analysis
Joseph Beuys in Memoriam (F. & S. II.371) features postwar artist Joseph Beuys over a camouflage background. This image presents the subject in higher contrast, giving new detail to his shirt collar, vest, and striking light eyes. Warhol produced this particular image of Beuys several years after printing the rest of the series Joseph Beuys. Working from a 1979 polaroid taken of the artist, Andy Warhol produced this signed screen print in a limited edition of 90 in memory of his contemporary’s death in 1986.
Warhol’s Joseph Beuys in Memoriam (F. & S. II.371) comes from the larger series Joseph Beuys. An influential theorist and performance artist, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) spent the majority of his career in Europe, where his fame was concentrated. Even so, Beuys’ fame spread across the Atlantic where he held a retrospective at the Guggenheim museum in 1979. Despite being some of the biggest names in the postwar art world, the two only met a handful of times. Warhol’s production of this image postmortem indicates that infrequent meetings did not diminish the recognition and mutual admiration between the two artists.
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.
