Flowers (F. & S. II.66)
Flowers (F. & S. II.66)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£90,000-£140,000Value
Indicator
$170,000-$270,000 Value Indicator
$150,000-$240,000 Value Indicator
¥810,000-¥1,260,000 Value Indicator
€110,000-€160,000 Value Indicator
$890,000-$1,380,000 Value Indicator
¥16,690,000-¥25,950,000 Value Indicator
$110,000-$180,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Format: Signed Print
Year: 1970
Size: H 91cm x W 91cm
Edition size: 250
Signed: Yes
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Andy Warhol's Flowers (F. & S. II.66) (signed), a screen print from 1970, is estimated to be worth between £90,000 and £140,000. This artwork has been sold 20 times at auction since its initial sale on 20th June 2000. Over the past five-year period, the hammer price has ranged from £25,277 in December 2018 to £128,976 in January 2023, with an average annual growth rate of 22%. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £107,921, with a total sales volume of 2. The edition size is limited to 250.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Bruun Rasmussen - Online - Denmark | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print | |||
| January 2023 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print | |||
| January 2022 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print | |||
| October 2021 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print | |||
| December 2018 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print | |||
| October 2018 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print | |||
| December 2017 | Ketterer Kunst Hamburg - Germany | Flowers (F. & S. II.66) - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
The screen print Flowers (F. & S. II.66), from Andy Warhol’s Flowers series (1970), shows the artist’s famous flower motif, rotated, rendered in this print with soft pink and oranges hues against a starkly contrasted grass background. With the Flowers series, Warhol exhibits his unrivalled skill in the screen print process by using the same photographic motif for each print and rendering it in a multitude of variations of colour and composition.
Taken from a photograph by Patricia Caulfield found in a 1964 issue of Modern Photography, Warhol deliberately appropriates and repeats the image excessively to mirror the mechanical forms of reproduction found in mass-media that he was so fascinated by. This idea of assembly-line production was reinforced by Warhol’s “Factory’ that opened in New York in 1964, where he produced many of his screen prints, noting: ‘Mechanical means are today and using them I can get more art to more people. Art should be for everyone.”
Flowers (F. & S.II.66) reworks the traditional art historical genre of flower painting, by appropriating an image from a magazine and reproducing it in a ‘machine-like’ manner, to challenge ideas of fine art, authorship and creativity. Warhol directly participates in appropriation and image dissemination. Consciously banal and synthetic. He rejects hierarchical compositions in favour of flattened perspective and abolishes complex colour harmonies for monochrome planes of flat colour and artificially bright ink.
