Flowers (F. & S. II.72)
Flowers (F. & S. II.72)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£70,000-£110,000Value
Indicator
$130,000-$210,000 Value Indicator
$120,000-$190,000 Value Indicator
¥630,000-¥990,000 Value Indicator
€80,000-€130,000 Value Indicator
$690,000-$1,080,000 Value Indicator
¥12,980,000-¥20,390,000 Value Indicator
$90,000-$140,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Format: Signed Print
Year: 1970
Size: H 92cm x W 92cm
Edition size: 250
Signed: Yes
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The value of Andy Warhol’s Flowers (F. & S. II.72) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £70,000 and £110,000. Over the past five years, the hammer price ranges from £25,277 in December 2018 to £48,000 in September 2022. This screenprint artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 31%. This work has an impressive auction history, having been sold 18 times at auction since its first auction sale in July 2001. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 250.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2022 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print | |||
| December 2018 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print | |||
| October 2018 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print | |||
| April 2018 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print | |||
| December 2017 | Bonhams New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print | |||
| October 2015 | Christie's New York - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print | |||
| September 2014 | Wright - United States | Flowers (F. & S. II.72) - Signed Print |
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.
