Dollar (F. & S. II.275)
Dollar (F. & S. II.275)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
50 x 40cm, Edition of 60, Screenprint, 1982
£45,000-£70,000
$90,000-$130,000 Market Value Indicator
$80,000-$130,000 Market Value Indicator
¥400,000-¥620,000 Market Value Indicator
€50,000-€80,000 Market Value Indicator
$470,000-$730,000 Market Value Indicator
¥9,400,000-¥14,630,000 Market Value Indicator
$60,000-$90,000 Market Value Indicator
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Meaning & Analysis
Dollar (F. & S. II.275) is a 1982 screenprint by Andy Warhol from the Dollar Sign series. A large dollar sign in deep navy is overlaid with a rust-red crayon-like outline and hatching on a bright turquoise ground. The work is signed in pencil at the lower right and published in an edition of 60.
The Dollar Sign paintings and prints of 1981 and 1982 take Warhol’s lifelong interest in money to its most reduced form. Earlier, he had painted banknotes and dollar bills. Here he removes the note and leaves only the symbol, enlarged until it fills the sheet. His own remarks about business and art, which he treated as one activity, give the series its context.
Dollar (F. & S. II.275) is built from two overlapping layers. The first is a solid, dark navy sign with its curves clearly modelled. The second is a looser drawing in rust red, printed over the first and slightly out of register, with dense hatching that suggests oil crayon applied by hand. The vertical bar of the sign passes through both layers and reads as a single bold stroke. The effect is of a printed form with a drawn one placed on top of it, so the symbol seems to have been both stamped and sketched.
The turquoise ground is bright and flat, it sets off both the navy and the red without softening either. The pairing of cool blue and warm brown-red makes this one of the more sombre colourways in the group. The edition of 60 is consistent with the rest of the series.
