Space Fruit: Pears

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Space Fruit: Pears

signed and numbered (lower left)

screenprint on Lenox Museum Board

30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

framed: 37 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches (94.6 x 120 cm)

Executed in 1979. This work is from an edition of 150.

Published by Grippi/Zivian, Inc., New York.

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Florida

Private collection, California

LITERATURE:

Feldman & Schellmann II.203

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 Space Fruit: Pears continues Warhol's exploration of everyday objects rendered strange through color, scale, and isolation. Floating against a simplified ground, the pears are transformed from familiar produce into bold, graphic forms that echo the visual language of advertising. The work underscores Warhol’s fascination with consumption and display, elevating ordinary fruit into icons of contemporary Pop imagery.