Andy Warhol — Trucks For Sale

Trucks for Sale

Andy Warhol's Trucks (1985) is one of the rarest and most unusual portfolios in his late career — a four-print series commissioned by Daimler-Benz AG that demonstrates, with characteristic Warhol wit, that commerce and art were never really separate concerns. The portfolio is among the most collectible of Warhol's corporate commission projects, prized both for its rarity and for the way it embodies the artist's philosophy of treating industrial objects with the same seriousness as celebrities or consumer goods.

The four prints each depict a Mercedes-Benz truck — rendered in Warhol's trademark flat, high-contrast palette with bold, non-naturalistic colour. The trucks are cropped, stylised, and transformed: what might have been a commercial brochure becomes something closer to a monument. The commission was a natural extension of Warhol's longstanding interest in cars, machines, and the aesthetic of American and European industry.

Edition Information

Published in an edition of 30 per image, with additional artist's proofs and printer's proofs. Each print measures 30 × 40 inches, printed on Lenox Museum Board. Published by Daimler-Benz AG and printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, 1985.

Market Context

The Trucks portfolio is significantly rarer than most Warhol series, with an edition size of just 30. This scarcity, combined with the portfolio's distinctive subject matter, makes it highly attractive to specialist collectors. Works appear infrequently on the open market, and when they do, they tend to attract competitive bidding from both Warhol collectors and collectors focused on automotive or industrial design imagery.

Collector Note

For collectors seeking a Warhol portfolio that stands genuinely apart from his mainstream output, Trucks is an exceptional choice — rare, unusual, and quintessentially Warholian in its elevation of the ordinary to the iconic. Guy Hepner Gallery can source Trucks prints on request. Contact us to discuss availability.