Flash - November 22, 1963

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Flash - November 22, 1963

numbered (on the reverse)

screenprint on paper

21 x 21 inches (53.3 x 53.3 cm)

Executed in 1968. This work is from an edition of 200 plus 26 sets in Roman numerals.

Published by Racolin Press, Inc., Briarcliff Manor, New York.

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Germany

Acquired from the above by the present owner

LITERATURE:

Feldman & Schellmann II.37

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.

Flash – November 22, 1963 draws from Warhol’s Death and Disaster imagery, confronting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a moment endlessly replayed and mediated through mass culture. Using fragmented headlines, symbols, and photographic repetition, Warhol reflects on how tragedy is consumed, remembered, and emotionally flattened through media saturation. The series underscores his enduring fascination with mortality, celebrity, and the uneasy intersection of public spectacle and private loss.