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Andy Warhol - Man Ray F.S. II 149, 1974, Screen print on Paper
Signed, numbered

Man Ray F.S. II 149, 1974

Screen print on Paper Signed, numbered

13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in 34.9 x 34.9 cm

Edition

Edition of 100

About this work

Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray was a pioneering American modern artist celebrated for his role in the Dada and Surrealist movements. While he worked across a range of media, he is most renowned for his innovative photography, particularly in the realms of fashion and portraiture. Andy Warhol was introduced to Man Ray through Italian art dealer Luciano Anselmino, a meeting that would lead to one of Warhol’s most poignant portrait subjects. Man Ray FS. II 149 is one of the images Warhol created of the artist shortly before his death, capturing not just his likeness but also paying tribute to his creative legacy.Warhol held a deep admiration for Man Ray, both for his artistic experimentation and for his influence on the evolution of modern art—qualities that paralleled Warhol’s own ethos. Including Man Ray in his collection of portrait subjects was both a personal and artistic decision, reflecting the impact Man Ray had on Warhol’s development. The portrait stands as a visual homage to one of Warhol’s early influences, memorializing Ray’s avant-garde spirit through the iconic style that defined Warhol’s later work.Man Ray FS. II 149 is visually identical to Man Ray 148 with the only differences being the print dimensions and the paper used. This subtle distinction highlights Warhol’s interest in reproduction and variation—a recurring theme throughout his career.The portrait was created in conjunction with a 1974 exhibition of Warhol’s work at Galleria Il Fauno in Milan, Italy. While Warhol often accepted commissions to paint celebrities, aristocrats, and socialites, he also took great pleasure in portraying individuals he personally admired. Man Ray was one such figure—a hero to Warhol—and this portrait served as a deeply personal expression of respect and artistic kinship. As part of Warhol’s larger body of work, Man Ray FS II. 149 underscores his fascination with iconic personalities and his ability to elevate them into timeless cultural symbols.For more information on Warhol’s Man Ray (FS II. 149) or to buy Man Ray (FS II. 149), contact our galleries using the form below.

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Series Performance & Market Position

The Man Ray series represents one of Warhol's most intellectually compelling portrait suites, paying homage to the Surrealist photographer who helped define avant-garde visual culture in the twentieth century. Recent auction activity demonstrates renewed institutional and private interest in this suite. September 2025 saw a Man Ray canvas achieve GBP 797,633 at auction, signaling strong demand at the upper tier of the series. One edition realized GBP 11,970 in September 2021. These results, drawn from Guy Hepner internal records, confirm that the series operates across multiple price points—offering entry for emerging collectors while rewarding those pursuing unique canvas examples.

Context matters here. Warhol's market has never been stronger at the apex: Christie's achieved $195,040,000 for Shot Sage Blue Marilyn in May 2022, establishing the highest price ever paid for a twentieth-century artwork at auction. Mao prints sold for $4,648,000 each in May 2025, while Sotheby's moved major Flowers works at $4,076,000 and $3,832,000 that same month. A Self-Portrait brought $18,144,000 at Sotheby's in November 2023. The Man Ray series, by comparison, remains undervalued relative to these marquee categories—a gap sophisticated collectors recognize as opportunity.

Technical & Historical Context

Warhol created the Man Ray series in 1974, the same year he produced several of his most significant portrait suites, with printing executed by Alexander Heinrici. The edition comprises works on Strathmore Bristol paper, a surface Warhol favored for its archival quality and receptivity to his saturated color fields.

Man Ray himself embodied the cross-disciplinary experimentation Warhol admired. By selecting this subject, Warhol acknowledged his own artistic lineage while claiming a place within that tradition. The composition isolates Man Ray's face through Warhol's signature high-contrast treatment, flattening photographic source material into graphic immediacy. This wasn't mere homage—it was a conversation between two artists who understood that image-making itself had become the defining medium of modern culture.

The canvas variant, measuring 40 x 40 inches in acrylic and silkscreen enamel, represents the series at its most authoritative scale. These unique works command attention that the editioned prints cannot replicate.

Individual Works & Collector Insights

Man Ray (1974), Acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas, 40 x 40 in The canvas works stand apart. Collectors pursuing legacy holdings consistently prioritize these unique pieces, understanding that the combination of hand-applied acrylic with silkscreen enamel creates surfaces no print edition can match. The September 2025 result of GBP 797,633 came from this category, confirming the price separation between canvas and paper.

Man Ray (1974), Screen print on Paper, 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in This smaller format edition appeals to collectors building comprehensive Warhol print holdings. We see particular interest from those who already own works from the Mao or Marilyn suites and seek intellectually adjacent examples.

Man Ray (1974), Screen print on Strathmore Bristol paper, 31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in At larger scale, this edition delivers visual presence comparable to the canvas while remaining within the editioned market. Condition becomes paramount at this size—any handling marks diminish value disproportionately.

From our experience placing hundreds of Warhols, the Man Ray buyer tends toward connoisseurship. These are collectors who appreciate subtlety alongside spectacle.

Authentication & Condition Considerations

Authentication for Man Ray works follows established Warhol protocols. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Authentication Board operated until 2011, and works authenticated during that period carry documentation accordingly. Current authentication relies on The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, published by Phaidon, alongside provenance research and technical analysis.

For these prints, collectors should verify stamped signatures on verso where applicable, edition numbering, and publisher blindstamps from Castelli Graphics or Multiples, Inc. Paper condition demands scrutiny: examine margins for handling creases, assess color saturation against known exemplars, and confirm no restoration to printed areas. Fading in Warhol's specific pigments indicates improper storage or light exposure.

Canvas works require assessment of silkscreen registration, surface condition of enamel layers, and structural integrity of stretcher bars. Any relined canvas should be fully documented with conservation reports.

Guy Hepner provides comprehensive condition reporting and facilitates third-party verification upon request.

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Guy Hepner maintains active inventory across the Man Ray series and sources specific works for collector requirements. Our New York team brings nearly five decades of combined Warhol market experience to every acquisition.

Contact us directly to discuss available works, pricing, and acquisition strategy tailored to your collection.

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.

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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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