Dollar (F. & S. II.276)
Dollar (F. & S. II.276)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
50 x 40cm, Edition of 60, Screenprint, 1987
£30,000-£45,000
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Meaning & Analysis
Dollar (F. & S. II.276) is a 1987 screenprint by Andy Warhol depicting a dollar sign against a pale lavender ground. Warhol renders the symbol in dark purple and slate with gestural yellow and gold hatching across the surface, the palette markedly more subdued than earlier works in his Dollar Sign series. The work is from a signed edition of 60.
Produced five years after the main body of the Dollar Sign series, Dollar (F. & S. II.276) represents a later return to one of Warhol's most commercially legible motifs. By 1987 the brash confidence of the early 1980s prints had given way to a more restrained palette: where earlier Dollar works hit hard with primary contrasts and dense layered colour, this print settles into lavender and purple, the dollar sign held in dark slate with yellow hatching loosened across the surface.
The result is a more introspective work than the series' earlier entries. The lavender ground removes the symbol from any straightforward association with wealth or spectacle. The gestural hatching in yellow and gold introduces a note of uncertainty, the mark-making working against the icon's usual graphic clarity.
Warhol died in February 1987, making works from that year among the last he produced. Dollar (F. & S. II.276) sits close to the end of his working life, its quieter register is noted by scholars of his late practice. The signed edition of 60 is consistent with the limited print runs of the original Dollar Sign series.
