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Andy Warhol Cow Wallpaper F.S. II 11 For Sale

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Andy Warhol - Cow Wallpaper F.S. II 11, 1966, Screen print on wall paper

Cow Wallpaper F.S. II 11, 1966

Screen print on wall paper

45 1/2 x 29 3/4 in 115.6 x 75.6 cm

About this work

Andy Warhol’s Cow series, developed between 1966 and 1976, marked yet another instance of the artist subverting artistic expectations. While cows may seem an unlikely subject for Pop Art, they were far from Warhol’s first unconventional choice. His earlier works—featuring soup cans, passenger tickets, and even electric chairs—had already demonstrated his appetite for challenging the boundaries of contemporary art. Warhol’s Flowers series had further broadened his visual lexicon, proving that even delicate, natural motifs could be reimagined in a Pop context. If flowers could become Pop, then why not cows?Still, by the early 1970s, Warhol was more readily associated with celebrity, consumerism, and glamour than with the natural world. That made the Cow prints all the more surprising. He created Cow 11, one of five works in the series, during the closing days of his major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in 1971.The origin of the series can be traced back to an encounter in the early 1960s, when Warhol and close friend Ted Carey visited the Leo Castelli Gallery and met influential art dealer Ivan Karp. After showing them one of Roy Lichtenstein’s paintings, Karp agreed to visit Warhol’s studio. The two quickly bonded—Warhol later recalled, “I had a very good rapport with Ivan right away… he had an ‘up’ attitude to everything.” It was Karp who would eventually suggest that Warhol paint cows, describing them as “wonderfully pastoral… a durable image in the history of the arts.”True to form, Warhol accepted the suggestion—but reinterpreted it in his own radical style. “I don’t know how ‘pastoral’ \[Ivan] expected me to make them,” Warhol later joked. “But when he saw the huge cow heads—bright pink on a bright yellow background… he was shocked.” Rather than presenting a peaceful, rural scene, Warhol delivered a loud, high-contrast composition that turned the cow into an icon of Pop absurdity.The resulting image was not just made for framing—it was made for wallpaper. Warhol, ever focused on repetition and the commodification of imagery, printed the Cow design as wallpaper and used it to line gallery walls. The installation blurred the line between fine art and commercial decor, a theme that had defined much of his earlier work.Upon seeing the installation, Karp exclaimed, “They’re super-pastoral! They’re ridiculous! They’re blazingly bright and vulgar!” His shock quickly gave way to admiration. The photograph that formed the basis for Cow 11 was taken by Gerard Malanga, Warhol’s longtime assistant, who captured the cow’s head in sharp profile, turned directly toward the viewer. What might have been a mundane rural image was electrified through Warhol’s palette and scale. With its fluorescent pink and yellow hues, Cow 11 commanded attention just as powerfully as Warhol’s Marilyns or his Campbell’s soup cans.In essence, Cow 11 encapsulates Warhol’s gift for recontextualizing the familiar. He invited viewers to see an ordinary animal with new eyes—rendered not as a pastoral cliché, but as a symbol of Pop spectacle. Just like his Flowers series, the Cows infused natural imagery with mass-market appeal, making them endlessly repeatable and never dull.The prints were produced in New York by Bill Miller’s Wallpaper Studio, Inc., marking an early instance of Warhol’s foray into installation-based presentation—an approach he would continue to explore in subsequent exhibitions. Ultimately, the Cow series reminds us that for Warhol, no subject was too mundane to be transformed. Once put through the Warhol screenprint machine, even a cow could become an icon.For more information on Andy Warhol’s Cow (FS.II 11) or to buy Cow (FS.II 11), contact our galleries using the form below.

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Edition & Provenance

Year
1966
Medium
Screen print on wall paper
Edition
Edition of unknown size with approximately 100 signed with a rubber stamp ;
Cow Wallpaper F.S. II 11

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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
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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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