After The Party (F. & S. II.183)
After The Party (F. & S. II.183)
Unsigned Print
Andy Warhol
55 x 77cm, Edition of 1000, Screenprint, 1979
£12,500-£18,000
$24,000-$35,000 Market Value Indicator
$24,000-$35,000 Market Value Indicator
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Meaning & Analysis
After The Party (F. & S. II.183) is a 1979 screenprint by Andy Warhol, showing a table viewed from above and strewn with glasses, bottles, plates and napkins. White forms and fine yellow, red and green outlines stand against a near-black ground. It is an unsigned print from an edition of 1,000.
Warhol made the After the Party series in 1979, taking as his subject the debris of a dinner once the guests had gone. Where his earlier consumer subjects were shown new and intact, here the objects are used and abandoned: half-emptied glasses, plates with food remnants, a crumpled napkin. The still-life tradition has long used such scenes to suggest time passing, the print can be read in that light, although Warhol himself offered no such explanation.
The composition is dense and crowded. Stemmed glasses and tumblers overlap in the centre, two tall bottles rise from the top edge, and dishes and napkins press in from the left and right. Photographic tones, printed in black and white, give the table its glare and reflections, while loose coloured outlines in yellow, red, orange and green are laid over them and slip away from the edges of the forms. The effect is a flash photograph with a drawing placed on top.
