Flowers (F. & S. II.68) by Andy Warhol (Copy)

Flowers (F. & S. II.68) is a print from Andy Warhol’s Flowers series (1970), a set of 10 screen prints each showing four synthetically coloured hibiscus flowers against a background of grass and undergrowth. Warhol returned to this subject matter throughout his career, first appearing in his 1964 solo exhibition, entitled Flower Paintings, at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York. Both in its aesthetic character and moral import, the Flowers series is distinctly abstract when compared to Warhol’s more narrative works depicting celebrity, capitalism, death and disaster.