Anniversary Donald Duck and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (Double-Sided)

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Anniversary Donald Duck and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (Double-Sided)

screenprint on paper

31 1/2 x 44 inches (80 x 111.8 cm)

Executed in 1985. This work is accompanied by a certificate and number '124.122' from the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc.

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above by the present owner

NOTES:

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) emerged as a pioneering figure at the forefront of the 1960s Pop Art movement. His vivid silkscreens of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Monroe, and other commercial icons blurred the lines between fine art, mass production and advertising. Working across film, photography, painting and printmaking, Warhol upended traditional notions of authorship and elevated the artist to celebrity status. His Factory studio became an incubator for artistic innovation, and his incisive critique of consumerism and fame continues to shape contemporary art and popular culture today.

This rare double-sided work unites two distinct strands of Warhol’s practice: mass-media fantasy and political portraiture. One side features Donald Duck from Warhol’s Anniversary series, where the cartoon icon embodies global entertainment, nostalgia, and corporate imagery; the reverse presents Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands from the Reigning Queens series, portraying contemporary monarchy through the same Pop lens. Together, the paired images collapse boundaries between fiction and authority, underscoring Warhol’s enduring assertion that all power—whether cultural or political—is mediated through image, repetition, and visibility.