Artist: Andy Warhol (American, 1928 - 1987).
Title: "Flowers [Leo Castelli]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1964.
Dimensions: Overall size: 27 7/8 x 24 15/16 in. (708 x 633 mm). Image size: 21 7/8 x 21 15/16 in. (556 x 557 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in black ballpoint pen, lower right. Edition unknown - c300?. Heavy cream wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression with extremely bright and vibrant colors. Good to very condition; a scuff in the lower left margin, well away from the image; image itself very good with a few unobtrusive printer's creases; verso with some glue remnants; some very pale discoloration at lower left margin edge recto, barely noticeable. Literature/catalogue raisonne: cf. Feldman/Schellmann II.6; cf. Paul Marechal, "Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Posters, 1964-1987," #1. Comment(s): Scarce, rare signed, and encountered far less often than the editioned print. According to 'Gordon's Art Reference' the auction record for another example of this poster (signed) is $18,750 (on pre-sale estimates of $20,000/30,000) realized at Swann Galleries, NYC, November 14, 2013, lot #111. This "Flowers" image is different from those of the limited edition published in 1970. Based on a photograph of hibiscus flowers by Patricia Caulfield in "Modern Photography," June, 1964. For the famous Castelli exhibition of November 21 to December 28, 1964, where Warhol signed several of the posters. Image copyright © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. [28383-6-7500]

Good to very condition; a scuff in the lower left margin, well away from the image; image itself very good with a few unobtrusive printer's creases; verso with some glue remnants; some very pale discoloration at lower left margin edge recto, barely noticeable.