ANDY WARHOL | Flowers

stamped with the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, Inc. stamp and numbered A109.971 on the overlap

Henry Geldzahler Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Private Collection (gift from the above)
Christie's, New York, 11 November 2015, lot 214
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

G. Frei and N. Printz, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Sculptures 1964-1969 Vol. 2B, New York, 2004, pp. 143 & 156, no. 1783

This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals gentle stretcher mark toward the upper edge. No evidence of restoration when examined under ultraviolet light.
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Warhol reduced and radicalised his Flowers to such an extent that the banal subject matter was now transformed into a powerful pictorial concept. The directionless format contributed to this: the pictures can be read in all directions; like an abstract painting, top and bottom, left and right, have been revoked. - Nina Zimmer