Liz
Liz
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
£26,000-£40,000Value
Indicator
$50,000-$80,000 Value Indicator
$45,000-$70,000 Value Indicator
¥230,000-¥360,000 Value Indicator
€30,000-€45,000 Value Indicator
$260,000-$390,000 Value Indicator
¥4,820,000-¥7,420,000 Value Indicator
$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Format: Signed Print
Year: 1964
Size: H 58cm x W 58cm
Edition size: 300
Signed: Yes
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Andy Warhol's Liz (signed) screenprint from 1964 is estimated to be worth between £26,000 to £40,000. There have been 5 sales at auction in the last 12 months. Over the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £15,537 in October 2019 to a high of £71,616 in April 2022. Despite the fluctuations, the average annual growth rate of this work is -5%. Since its first sale in November 1999, this work has been sold 108 times at auction. The edition size of this work is limited to 300.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2023 | Heffel Online - Canada | Liz - Signed Print | |||
| October 2023 | Bonhams Los Angeles - United States | Liz - Signed Print | |||
| September 2023 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Liz - Signed Print | |||
| June 2023 | Ketterer Kunst Hamburg - Germany | Liz - Signed Print | |||
| April 2023 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Liz - Signed Print | |||
| October 2022 | Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh - United Kingdom | Liz - Signed Print | |||
| October 2022 | Phillips New York - United States | Liz - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Immortalising one of the most ionic and glamorous faces of the 20th century, Liz is a print from Andy Warhol’s Liz Taylor series (1964) that features a portrait of the eponymous actress. Distinguishing an entire generation of art, Warhol’s Liz epitomises the artist’s Pop Art style becoming synonymous with the movement as a whole and a symbol of 20th century American culture.
The print shows an image of Taylor based on a publicity photograph from the late 1950s for her film Butterfield 8 tightly cropped and coloured with a bright red background that contours Taylor’s thick, dark hair. With this print, Warhol came to realise the power of his simplified, graphic depictions of immeasurable celebrity, fleeting mortality and unrelenting mass-media, thus inspiring his famed depictions of Marilyn Monroe that took on a similar style.
Exploring the image in a multitude of colours throughout the series Warhol said of his screen printing method, ‘you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple – quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it.’ The repetition of a single image across the entire series explores the concept of democratising high art and mimics the appearance of prolific mass-media imagery. Alongside Warhol’s use of vivid non-naturalistic colours, the series points to the excessiveness of celebrity culture and the hollowness of fame.
