Hans Christian Andersen (F. & S. II.394-397) (complete set)
Hans Christian Andersen (F. & S. II.394-397) (complete set)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
97 x 97cm, Edition of 25, Screenprint, 1987
£7,000-£10,500
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Meaning & Analysis
Hans Christian Andersen (F. & S. II.394-397) is a 1987 screenprint portfolio by Andy Warhol comprising four prints: a seated portrait of the author and three silhouette images in pink, blue and green. Each is printed on a flat ground of red, pale green, grey or black. The complete set is signed and published in an edition of 25.
The portfolio pairs one portrait with three images that appear to draw on Andersen’s own paper cuttings. The portrait shows the writer seated in a dark frock coat, repeated as a red shadow on a black panel behind him. The silhouettes are a slender plant topped by a small figure and flanked by two women, a squatting figure carrying a tray with a town and a church spire, and a symmetrical figure with raised arms and heart-shaped openings.
Warhol issued the four images in two colourways, this is the first set, catalogued as F. & S. II.394 to 397. The palette is cooler and more varied than in the second set (F. & S. II.398 to 401), which sets every image against black. Here the grounds change from red to pale green, grey and black, so that each print has its own temperature while the set holds together through its flat colour and heavy outline.
The set shows the range of Warhol’s late printmaking. A photographic portrait sits beside images that are purely graphic, the same flat colour treatment serving both. The edition of 25 is small for a complete portfolio, sets of this kind are rarely seen together.
