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Andy Warhol - Flower Trial Proof, 1970, Screen print

Flower Trial Proof, 1970

Screen print

Edition

Unique

About this work

Flower Trial Proof is a unique screenprint from Andy Warhol’s celebrated Flowers series, created in 1970. Trial proofs are produced during the printing process to test colour and registration before the final edition is run, making each example a singular object distinct from the numbered edition of 250. This work exemplifies Warhol’s signature approach to the Flowers motif — vibrant, flat colour fields set against the four-hibiscus composition sourced from Patricia Caulfield’s 1964 photograph.

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Edition & Provenance

Year
1970
Medium
Screen print
Edition
Unique

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About the Flowers 1970 Series

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Series Performance Opening

The Flowers 1970 portfolio stands as one of the most actively traded and consistently appreciating series in Andy Warhol's print market, commanding prices that rival his political portraiture while offering broader accessibility than singular iconic subjects.

The Flowers portfolio attracts a distinctive collector profile: buyers seeking museum-quality Warhol exposure without the eight-figure entry point demanded by unique works or the Marilyn series. The Shot Sage Blue Marilyn's $195,040,000 result at Christie's in May 2022—the highest price ever recorded for a 20th-century artwork at auction—established Warhol as the definitive blue-chip standard. The Flowers series benefits directly from this market positioning, functioning as a gateway acquisition for collectors building toward comprehensive Warhol holdings.

Current pricing reflects strong fundamentals rather than speculative heat, a characteristic our advisory team views favorably for 2025-2026 acquisitions.

Technical & Historical Context

Published by Factory Additions, New York, the Flowers portfolio comprises ten screen prints executed in 1970, each measuring 36 x 36 inches. The edition size of 250 plus 26 artist's proofs established sufficient market liquidity while maintaining collectible scarcity—a balance Warhol calibrated deliberately for his major print projects.

The source imagery derives from a photograph by Patricia Caulfield, published in Modern Photography magazine, which Warhol appropriated and transformed through his signature flattening technique. This act of visual repurposing sparked copyright litigation that became inseparable from the series' conceptual framework, anticipating debates around appropriation art that would dominate critical discourse for decades.

Warhol's color separations reduce botanical complexity to graphic immediacy: four hibiscus blooms rendered in saturated, artificial hues against dark foliage. The tension between organic subject matter and industrial production methodology remains central to the portfolio's art-historical significance. Each colorway—ranging from acidic yellows and pinks to cooler blues and magentas—demonstrates Warhol's understanding of how chromatic variation could generate distinct aesthetic experiences within a unified conceptual framework.

Individual Works

Within the ten-print portfolio, certain colorways consistently outperform others at auction and in private transactions. One colorway, with its striking orange and pink palette, generates the strongest collector response. These works balance visual impact with interior versatility—a practical consideration serious collectors acknowledge when building holdings intended for long-term display.

The complete ten-print set represents a distinct acquisition category. Full sets rarely surface, and when they do, pricing reflects the premium collectors assign to comprehensiveness. From a dealer perspective, complete portfolios appeal to collectors establishing legacy holdings or those with architectural contexts suited to sequential display.

One colorway delivers the saturated visual punch that reads effectively in contemporary interiors. Each colorway has its constituency; none should be dismissed as secondary within the portfolio structure.

Authentication & Condition

Authentication for the Flowers 1970 series requires verification against the Feldman and Schellmann catalogue raisonné, the definitive scholarly reference for Warhol's prints. Legitimate impressions bear the Factory Additions blindstamp and are numbered and signed in pencil on the verso. Unsigned examples exist but trade at significant discounts and should be approached with appropriate documentation scrutiny.

Condition assessment focuses on several series-specific factors. The saturated inks Warhol employed are susceptible to light fading, particularly in the yellow and pink colorways. Collectors should request detailed condition reports noting any color shift, particularly along sheet edges where light exposure typically manifests first. Surface abrasions, handling creases, and foxing affect value materially—differences between fine and excellent condition can represent six-figure price differentials at this market level.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts maintains authentication protocols that have evolved significantly since the Authentication Board's dissolution in 2011. Provenance documentation tracing ownership history remains the most reliable authentication pathway for secondary market acquisitions. Guy Hepner maintains rigorous verification standards, and our condition reports reflect physical examination by specialists with extensive Warhol print expertise.


Contact Guy Hepner in New York to discuss available Flowers 1970 works, acquisition strategy, or portfolio valuation. Our Warhol specialists offer private consultation for collectors at every stage of market engagement.

Warhol's Broader Practice

This series belongs to the vast and varied body of print and painted work Warhol produced across five decades, during which he moved fluidly between celebrity portraiture, consumer product imagery, historical appropriation, and personal or commissioned subject matter — all filtered through the same signature screenprint process that flattened the distinction between mechanical reproduction and fine art. Warhol's insistence on treating commercial printing techniques as a primary artistic medium, rather than a secondary reproductive tool, remains one of the most influential positions in postwar American art.

Warhol's work is held in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which maintains the most complete public archive of his output across all periods and subjects.

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About Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol prints for sale and Andy Warhol paintings for sale at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York. Our inventory spans screenprints, silkscreens, and unique works across his most collected series: Marilyn Monroe, Campbell's Soup, Mao, Flowers, Myths, Ads, Cowboys and Indians, Dollar Signs, Cars, and Reigning Queens — all with full provenance and Feldman & Schellmann catalogue raisonné references. We also acquire Warhol. Contact our team for a free valuation.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) is the defining figure of American Pop Art and the most commercially traded artist of the twentieth century. Born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh to Slovak immigrant parents, he rose from commercial illustrator to the architect of a cultural movement that permanently dissolved the boundary between fine art and mass media. His Manhattan studio, The Factory, became the epicentre of New York art and celebrity culture from the early 1960s until his death in February 1987.

Andy Warhol Art For Sale

Andy Warhol art for sale spans an extraordinary range of subjects, media, and price points — from intimate drawings and unique canvas paintings to large signed editions. His signature subjects include Campbell's Soup Cans, Marilyn Monroe, Mao Zedong, Dollar Signs, Flowers, Reigning Queens, Cowboys and Indians, the Ads portfolio, and the late Cars and Endangered Species series. Each body of work reflects his obsessive engagement with repetition, celebrity, and commodity culture.

The market benchmark for Warhol was set in May 2022 when Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold at Christie's New York for $195 million — the highest price ever achieved at auction for an American artwork. Recent print sales confirm sustained institutional demand: Mao editions achieved $4,648,000 each at Christie's in May 2025; Flowers editions achieved $4,076,000 and $3,832,000 at Sotheby's in the same season.

Andy Warhol Paintings For Sale

Andy Warhol paintings for sale — unique acrylics and silkscreens on canvas — represent the rarest and most valuable tier of his output. Subjects produced in multiple unique variations include Flowers, Skulls, Shadows, Dollar Signs, and the late Oxidation Paintings. The Rorschach series (1984) and Camouflage works appeal strongly to institutional collectors. Abstract Expressionism paintings from the late 1970s and early 1980s remain undervalued relative to his iconic print series and represent a compelling collecting opportunity.

Andy Warhol paintings require substantial documentation: exhibition history, gallery receipts, and provenance tracing to The Factory or first-generation dealers. Prices range from mid-five figures for works on paper to eight figures for major canvas paintings. Our team can advise on current pricing and condition assessment across all painting categories.

Andy Warhol Prints For Sale

Warhol's screenprints represent the most accessible and widely collected segment of his output. Andy Warhol prints for sale range from early unsigned offset lithographs to hand-signed, numbered editions produced with Castelli Graphics, Factory Editions, and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Signed, numbered editions from key series — Marilyn Monroe (1967), Flowers (1970), Mao (1972), Ads (1985), Endangered Species (1983), Cowboys and Indians (1986), and Reigning Queens (1985) — command the strongest collector demand and the deepest secondary market liquidity.

Condition, provenance, and edition size are the critical variables. Works printed on Lenox Museum Board or high-grade rag paper with consistent registration and original colouration are the most desirable. Fading, foxing, or retouching materially affects value.

Andy Warhol Cars Prints For Sale

The Cars portfolio (F.S. II.356–362), produced in 1985 as a commission from Mercedes-Benz to mark the centenary of the automobile, stands among the most refined of Warhol's late print series. Ten screenprints on Lenox Museum Board render historic Mercedes-Benz models in Warhol's characteristic flat colour and photographic silkscreen technique — his iconic commercial sensibility applied to the history of industrial design. Signed and numbered in editions of 100, with separate artist's proofs, the Cars series regularly achieves $25,000–$75,000 per impression and commands significant premiums when offered as complete portfolios.

Andy Warhol Late Paintings and Works on Paper

Warhol's production in the final decade of his life — broadly 1978 to 1987 — encompasses some of his most conceptually ambitious work. The Knives series (1981–82), Guns series (1981–82), and Crosses (1981–82) form a trilogy of loaded American objects rendered in the same neutral Pop vocabulary he had applied to Soup Cans twenty years earlier. The Boots and Dollar Bills paintings sit alongside late unique canvases from the Camouflage series (1986–87) and the haunting Last Supper paintings completed weeks before his death. Works from this period are systematically underrepresented in collector awareness relative to their importance to the broader catalogue and represent genuine long-term collecting opportunities.

Andy Warhol Self Portrait Prints For Sale

Andy Warhol self portrait prints are among the most sought-after works in his catalogue — a subject he returned to from 1966 to 1986. The most collected examples include:

  • Self Portrait F.S. II.7 (1966) — the iconic fist-to-chin composition in vivid Pop colourways
  • Self Portrait F.S. II.12–22 (1978) — nine large-format prints; auction results regularly $80,000–$250,000
  • Self Portrait with Fright Wig (1986) — produced a year before his death; widely regarded as his definitive late statement
  • Camouflage Self Portrait F.S. II.316 (1986) — the artist dissolved into his own imagery

Self portrait prices range from $18,000 for early unsigned screenprints to $400,000+ for the 1978 and 1986 signed works in excellent condition. Authentication requires reference to the Feldman & Schellmann catalogue raisonné and, where applicable, a former Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board certificate.

Sell Andy Warhol Prints — Free Valuation

Guy Hepner actively acquires Andy Warhol prints, paintings, and unique works from private collections. If you are looking to sell Warhol prints or seeking a current market valuation, contact our New York gallery for a confidential, no-obligation assessment. We handle all series including Marilyn, Mao, Flowers, Ads, Cowboys and Indians, Myths, Reigning Queens, and late works. Our team can advise on the most appropriate route to market and current secondary market pricing.

Interested in adding Andy Warhol to your collection? Contact our team to discuss available inventory, provenance documentation, and pricing guidance tailored to your collecting goals.

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