Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands (F. & S. II.341)
Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands (F. & S. II.341)
Signed Print
Andy Warhol
100 x 80cm, Edition of 40, Screenprint, 1985
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Meaning & Analysis
Queen Beatrix Of The Netherlands (F. & S. II.341) is a 1985 screenprint by Andy Warhol from the Reigning Queens series. It shows the Dutch queen in a frontal portrait, her hair and the shadowed half of her face printed in red against a yellow ground, with a lavender block across the lower right. The work is signed and published in an edition of 40.
This is a second colourway of the Beatrix portrait in the Reigning Queens series, taken from the same source photograph as F. & S. II.339. The two prints show how far a change of colour alone can shift an image. The earlier version is silver-grey and pink on white. This one is hot and graphic.
The face is divided into a pale, flat flesh tone on one side and a mass of red on the other, where the shadow falls, so that the photographic modelling becomes a bold two-part structure. The hair and tiara are printed in crimson and orange, with the tiara’s ornament picked out in pale highlights. Fine blue and green outlines wander around the contours. The ground is a flat yellow with a wedge of orange at the upper left. A block of lavender covers the lower right of the dress and the burgundy sash, with a drawn decoration still visible on the left shoulder.
The colour decisions are arbitrary, as they are throughout the series. The portrait remains recognisable because Warhol keeps the photographic structure of the face. The edition of 40 is consistent with the standard editions across the portfolio.
