Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.39) For Sale

  • Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.39), Facts | History | Meaning

    Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.39)

    Facts | History | Meaning
    Catalogue Title Flash﹣November 22, 1963 (FS II.39)
    Year 1968
    Size 21″ x 21″ 53,3 x 53,3 cm
    Medium Portfolio of eleven screenprints, colophon, and Teletype text on paper. The prints, wrapped with the screenprint cover, are in a plexiglass box.
    Edition Edition of 200, 26 numbered in Roman numerals; 10 lettered A-J have three additional screenprints, each of which is a composite of images from II.33 and II.38. (See II.43A-43C.) Each print, housed in a folder with a page of Teletype text, is signed in ball-point pen on verso; the colophon is signed and numbered in ball-point pen.
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  • Flash (F & S II.39)

    “I don’t think I missed a stroke,” Andy Warhol said. “I wanted to know what was going on out there, but that was the extent of my reaction…What bothered me was the way the television and radio were programming everybody to feel so sad.”

    Andy Warhol published his Flash portfolio in 1968, five years after the shocking assassination of President John F Kennedy which changed both the political and social landscape of America forever. The assassination had undoubtedly become the landmark and defining moment of the decade, making it the perfect subject matter for Warhol as he aimed to capture quintessential moments that shape the essence of the America psyche in the late twentieth century.

    This print stands out from the rest of the portfolio, as it does not depict Kennedy or his wife, and features a single image rather than a multitude of layers. Instead, the screenprint shows a photo, an image that was repeated endlessly throughout the media, of the window which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the president. A large, rather ominous arrow points to the exact spot at which the tragedy unfolded. The image is rendered in a royal purple, emphasising the dominating nature of the media coverage.

    Throughout this period in the 1960s, Warhol explored darker themes further within his Death and Disaster series. Continuing from his depictions of consumer culture and celebrity, Warhol was fascinated by America’s obsession with disaster, and the ways in which they avidly consumed death-hungry media.

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