Flowers

Details

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Flowers
signed and dated 'ANDY WARHOL 64' (on the overlap); stamped with the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, Inc. stamp and numbered 'A102.025' (on the overlap)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
8 x 8 in. (20.3 x 20.3 cm.)
Painted in 1964.

Provenance

Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Peder Bonnier, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

G. Frei and N. Printz, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures 1964-1969, Vol. 2B, New York, 2004, pp. 100 and 121, no. 1642 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Greenwich, The Bruce Museum, Spring Into Summer with Andy Warhol and Friends, June-September 2017.

Lot Essay

"I looked around the studio and it was all Marilyn and disasters and death. I said, 'Andy, maybe it's enough death now.' He said, 'What do you mean?' I said, 'Well, how about this?' I opened a magazine to four flowers."
(H. Geldzahler, quoted in M. Lobel, "In Transition: Warhol's Flowers," in Andy Warhol Flowers, exh. cat., Eykyn Maclean, New York, 2012).

Flowers

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