Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.101)
Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.101)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
103 x 70cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint, 1974
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Meaning & Analysis
Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.101) is a 1974 screenprint by Andy Warhol, drawn entirely in black line on cream paper, from the Flowers (hand-coloured) series. A trumpet-shaped bloom rises from a small vase set on a round base and a block, with a looped, knotted cord running to the lower right and a tall curving form behind. The work is signed and published in an edition of 100.
This print comes from the same 1974 body of work as F. & S. II.104 and II.108, in which Warhol made black-and-white flower drawings intended to be coloured by hand. Of the group, F. & S. II.101 is the most unexpected in its composition. The flower itself is a small part of the sheet, the image organised more like a still life or a stage set.
A pale, trumpet-shaped bloom leans out of a vase with a curled handle, standing on a dark disc that sits on a heavily hatched block. A cord loops around the vase, crosses the sheet and ties in a double knot near the lower right corner, while a tall curved shape rises behind, outlined by the cord and shaded with a ragged band of hatching. The black areas are limited to the disc, a stem and the shadowed face of the block, the rest of the paper left open.
The line is unhurried and varies in weight, which keeps the drawing close to Warhol’s illustration practice of the 1950s.
