Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.42) For Sale

  • Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.42), Facts | History | Meaning

    Andy Warhol Flash (F & S II.42)

    Facts | History | Meaning
    Catalogue Title Flash﹣November 22, 1963 (FS II.42)
    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.40)

    "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."

    The American public were still reeling from the assassination of John F Kennedy which took place five years earlier, when Andy Warhol published his Flash portfolio in 1968. The portfolio focuses on the assassination, bringing together a collection of images ranging from cheery publicity shots of JFK on the campaign trail, to an advertisement of the gun that killed him. The portfolio aimed to critique the endless media circus that followed the assassination, which could not be escaped as the whole nation went into mourning. To Warhol, the media reaction was one of the most tragic parts of the situation. “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.” The news coverage seeped into every part of everyday life, as Warhol said himself, “It seemed like no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t get away from the thing”.

    This print depicts a poster from Kennedy’s campaign trail, with his face inverted and repeated on the right hand side. The print is in patriotic colours, red and blue. These bold colours are typical of Warhol, and therefore this screenprint places Kennedy amongst the likes of other Pop Art icons and muses, such as Marilyn Monroe or Mick Jagger.

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