Endangered Species

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Andy Warhol
Endangered Species
The complete set of ten screenprints in colours, 1983, on Lenox Museum Board, each signed in pencil, numbered 102/150 (there were also thirty artist's proofs), published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, each with the artist's inkstamp on the reverse, the full sheets
screenprint
Image. Sheet. 965 x 965 mm. (each)
Executed in 1983

Literature

Feldman & Schellmann II.293 - 302

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Lot Essay

Andy Warhol's Endangered Species series was born out of a conversation between Warhol and the commissioner, Ronald Feldman, concerning the ecological issue of beach erosion. Given Warhol's curiosity with animals, he was eager to take on the project proposed to him by Feldman. The resulting screenprints highlight ten endangered animals in a colourful, upbeat manner, which Warhol described as" animals in make-up ". His focus on the animals in isolation, with the pop-art palette, puts them on a level of superstardom along with the famous screenprints of his past: Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Muhammad Ali. The viewer consequently regards the animals in the same immortalizing light as those celebrities.

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