Name: Flowers (F. & S. II.72)
Brand: Andy Warhol
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Andy Warhol’s Flowers (F. & S. II.72) is estimated to be worth between £45,000 and £60,000. This signed screenprint from 1970 has shown consistent value growth, with an impressive average annual growth rate of 13%. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once at an average selling price of £47,266. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £47,266 in February 2025 to £48,384 in September 2022. Since its first sale in July 2001, this work has been sold 18 times at auction, demonstrating its desirability among collectors. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.

Meaning & Analysis

Taken from the artist’s Flowers series (1970), Flowers (F. & S. II.72) is one of Andy Warhol’s most identifiable prints showing four hibiscus flowers in excessively saturated colours. This print is exemplary of the way in which Warhol appropriated and abstracted images to convey underlying political commentaries that are not necessarily apparent upon first look.

The Flowers (F. & S. II.72) print is somewhat menacing in character, despite the light-heartedness of the subject matter. Due to Warhol’s manipulation of colour, the yellow hibiscus flowers display a garish quality and the background of undergrowth is flattened into a contrasted vivid green. Produced in the years following Warhol’s Death and Disaster paintings, Thirteen Most Wanted Men portraits and the portraits of Jackie Kennedy following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Flowers series is unexpected in its subject matter. Warhol is said to have used the flowers motif as a symbol of purity and fragility amidst widespread violence, his psychedelic colour palette strongly linked to the rise of the Flower Power movement of the 1960s.

In his choice of bright colours and simplified form, Warhol creates an aesthetically pleasing print, however the Flowers series references subversive and subliminal themes surrounding the existence of death in life. Warhol used flowers as symbols of nature’s ephemerality and the fleeting impermanence of beauty. Death was a frequent theme in Warhol’s life and work, as such, alongside images of Jackie Kennedy, Marylin Monroe, skulls, electric chairs and car crashes, these brightly coloured flowers became the perfect abstract tool to capture the brevity of life on canvas.