Flowers

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Flowers

signed and stamped with the number (on the reverse)

screenprint on wove paper

36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)

framed: 36 1/2 x 36 1/2 inches (92.7 x 92.7 cm)

Executed in 1970. This work is from an edition of 250 plus 26 artist's proofs.

Published by Factory Additions, New York.

PROVENANCE:

Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Phillips, New York, 26 October 2022, lot 55

Private collection, California

LITERATURE:

Feldman & Schellmann II.73

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.

Warhol’s Flowers series stands among his most celebrated explorations of beauty, repetition, and impermanence. Based on a color photograph of seven hibiscus blossoms by Patricia Caulfield for Modern Photography magazine, the image was radically transformed through cropping, bold color, and silkscreen translation—alterations that nevertheless resulted in a landmark 1966 copyright lawsuit won by Caulfield. First exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery to immediate sell-out success, Flowers remains one of Warhol’s most enduring and widely reproduced series, deeply embedded in fashion, advertising, and popular culture.