Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.107)
Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.107)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£8,500-£12,500Value
Indicator
$16,000-$24,000 Value Indicator
$14,500-$21,000 Value Indicator
¥80,000-¥110,000 Value Indicator
€10,000-€14,500 Value Indicator
$80,000-$120,000 Value Indicator
¥1,540,000-¥2,270,000 Value Indicator
$10,500-$16,000 Value Indicator
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
There aren’t enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.
Medium: Screenprint
Format: Signed Print
Year: 1974
Size: H 104cm x W 69cm
Edition size: 100
Signed: Yes
MyPortfolio
Your colletion tracked in realtime.
Build your portfolio, manage valuations, view return against your collection and watch works you're looking for.
Track auction value trend
The value of Andy Warhol’s Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.107) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £8,500 to £12,500. This screenprint from 1974 has had a total of 2 sales at auction to date. The hammer price in the last five years was £6,098 on 15th February 2023. The average return to the seller over this period was £5,183, with the artwork showing a strong increase in value with an average annual growth rate of 31%. The first sale at auction was on 22nd September 2012. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2023 | Wright - United States | Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.107) - Signed Print | |||
| September 2012 | Cottone Auctions - United States | Flowers (black and white) (F. & S. II.107) - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Flowers (black and white), part of the Flowers (Hand-Coloured) series (1974), is one of Andy Warhol’s more atypical prints. Reminiscent of 19th century Japanese woodblock prints, this print depicts a vase with a couple of flowers and a long, decorative leaf entirely in black and white. As with many of Warhol’s prints, form, colour and composition are flattened and simplified, but what makes this print notable is its organic and gestural use of fine lines.
Warhol consciously maintains a hand-drawn quality in the Flowers (Hand-Coloured) series that alludes to the artist’s personal touch, producing a more contemplative image that transcends the ‘machine-like’ aesthetic. His earlier Flower series’ from 1964 and 1970 are unmistakably Pop in their brilliant, synthetic hues and erasure of the artist’s touch, however this later series is more illustrative in style, similar to the work of David Hockney and Alex Katz.
For the Flowers (Hand-Coloured) series, Warhol abandoned his photographic print technique to instead focus on line and composition. Using wallpaper samples and the book Interpretative Flower Designs by Mrs Raymond Rus Stolz as his source material, Warhol used an opaque projector to copy from these images and create the delicately rendered image. Every print in the series is unique in that they were each coloured by a studio assistant with Dr. Martin’s aniline watercolour dyes. Flowers (black and white) amalgamates the hand-drawn with the mass-produced, and originality with appropriation, in his use of the screen printing technique, hand-dying and the copied image through organically drawn lines.
