Name: Details Of Renaissance Paintings (Leonardo Da Vinci, The Annunciation, 1472) (F. & S. II.321)
Brand: Andy Warhol
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Andy Warhol’s Details Of Renaissance Paintings (Leonardo Da Vinci, The Annunciation, 1472) (F. & S. II.321) is estimated to be worth between £30,000 and £45,000. This signed screenprint from 1984 has shown consistent value growth, with an impressive average annual growth rate of 15%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 8 times at auction since its initial sale on 19th March 2020. In the past 12 months, the average selling price was £27,665, across a total of 3 sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £17,440 in October 2022 to £36,655 in February 2023. The average return to the seller over the last five years is £22,324. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 60.

Meaning & Analysis

Andy Warhol’s print Leonardo da Vinci, The Annunciation, 1472) (F. & S. II.321) is based on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Annunciation (c. 1472-1475) now in the Uffizi gallery in Florence. Warhol has cropped Leonardo’s original to focus on the hands of the Angel Gabriel and Mary, the walled garden, and the landscape in the background. He replaces the muted colours of the original with bold purples, pints, and cerulean before adding his own outlines and emphasis in yellow and white. By drawing over this image, Warhol has changed the emphasis to the trees and mountains in the background, rather than the hands of the foreground.

Produced towards the end of his life, Warhol’s series, Details of Renaissance Paintings, render masterworks of Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Paolo Uccello in the twentieth-century medium of screen printing. Warhol first applied printing to Renaissance masterpieces after seeing the Mona Lisa in New York in 1963. Two decades later, he returned to the subject with the eyes of a mature artist, making bolder compositional choices with cropping and overdrawing. In reproducing and reinventing these masterpieces, Warhol placed himself in the canon of greats.