Andy Warhol Flowers (F & S II.66) For Sale

This screenprint was published in 1970 as part of a wider Flowers portfolio. Each print depicts the same image, a reappropriation of a photograph taken by Patricia Caulfield, but in an array of psychedelic colours. This print depicts the four flowers in an array of pink, peach and blue, against a red and yellow background. The portfolio comes together as an eye-catching and beautiful display, as Warhol turns the real into the surreal. However, there is a darker side behind the surface of each print than it seems at first glance…

The flower portfolio was first exhibited in 1964, which was a tumultuous time in American history. Civil rights protesters were fighting for their freedom in the streets, President JFK had been assassinated, and Marilyn Monroe had died the year before. During this period of change and unrest in America, Warhol was experimenting with his Death and Disaster series, which depicted these events. Warhol was fascinated by the way death was played out in the media at a fast, rolling, pace, and glamourised as the lives of idolised figures such as Monroe and Kennedy were taken away. Underneath the freedom of the happy-go-lucky hippie nature of the 1960s was a much darker reality of life in America in the 1960s, especially amongst Warhol and his crowd.

“Lou Reed, Silver George Milloway, Ondine, and me – we all knew the dark side of those Flowers,” recalled Warhol’s assistant, Ronnie Cutrone. “Don’t forget, at that time, there was flower power and flower children. We were the roots, the dark roots of that whole movement. None of us were hippies or flower children. Instead, we used to goof on it. We were into black leather and vinyl and whips and S&M and shooting up and speed. There was nothing flower power about that. So when Warhol and that whole scene made Flowers, it reflected the urban, dark, death side of that whole movement.”

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