Flowers

Flowers would appear, interspersed, throughout every decade of Warhol’s illustrious career. He penned drawings of flowers as early as the 1950s, studying floral compositions and visiting flower markets with friend Charles Lisanby to purchase flowers to sketch. Paintings of flowers from his 1964 exhibit at the Leo Castelli Gallery are some of his most widely recognized works, and his photographs from the 1970s and 1980s are pervasive. He continued variations with this theme until his death in 1987.

Year: 1970
Medium: Screenprint on paper
Size: 36 x 36 in (91.44 x 91.44 cm)
From an edition of 250, 26 AP (A-Z); this is an unsigned proof outside the edition
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith
Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc, New York
Publisher: Factory Editions, New York
Reference: FS.II.67

Authenticated by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Authentication Board. Reference: A151.115.

Provenance:
From a Distinguished Collection, Palm Beach, FL

Andy Warhol’s screenprint on paper, Flowers, dated 1970, shown here unframed.

Andy Warhol’s screenprint on paper, Flowers, dated 1970, shown here unframed alongside a six-foot figure for scale.

Upper right detail image of Andy Warhol’s screenprint on paper, Flowers, dated 1970.

A lower left side detail image of Andy Warhol’s screenprint on paper, Flowers, dated 1970.

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