Dollar (F. & S. II.279)
Dollar (F. & S. II.279)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
55 x 40cm, Edition of 60, Screenprint, 1982
£35,000-£50,000
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Meaning & Analysis
Dollar (F. & S. II.279) is a 1982 screenprint by Andy Warhol depicting an oversized dollar sign against a powder blue ground. Warhol renders the symbol in layered red, green, and gold, the colours overlapping to produce a dense, painterly surface with a fine red outline at the edge. The work is from a signed edition of 60.
Warhol's Dollar Sign series, produced in 1981 and 1982, stands as one of the most direct statements in his later practice. Where the Campbell's Soup Cans and Brillo Boxes had approached consumer culture obliquely — through the product rather than the currency behind it — the Dollar Sign prints dispensed with the object entirely and went straight to money itself. The dollar sign was presented as an image in its own right, subject to the same colour variation and serial repetition Warhol applied to celebrity portraits.
Dollar (F. & S. II.279) works across a powder blue ground that lends the composition an unexpected lightness. The dollar sign is built up in layered red, green, and gold, the three colours registering slightly off-axis to create a complex, textured surface. A fine red outline holds the symbol's edge against the ground. The effect sits somewhere between graphic design and painting: the sign remains instantly legible, but the formal construction of the surface becomes its own subject.
The signed edition of 60 places this work among the smaller print runs from this period of Warhol's practice. The Dollar Sign series has sustained consistent secondary market demand since the 1990s.
