Live Auction 2766Andy Warhol at Christie's Sold to Benefit the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
ANDY WARHOL
Lot 489

ANDY WARHOL

Flowers

Closed12 November 2012

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USD 62,500

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ANDY WARHOL
Flowers
offset lithograph in colors, 1964, on wove paper, aside from the edition of approximately 300, published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, with the 'The Estate of Andy Warhol' and 'Authorized by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts' inkstamps on the reverse, with full margins, generally in very good condition, framed
Image: 22 x 22 in. (559 x 559 mm.)
Sheet: 23 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (587 x 587 mm.)

Specialist note

Warhol's first exhibition at Castelli Gallery was Flowers paintings. The iconic image is based on Patricia Caulfield's photograph of hibiscus flowers in Modern Photography. One of Warhol's few offset lithographs from the 1960s, these prints were intended as posters in the early years to accompany museum exhibitions and gallery openings.