In 1962, Andy Warhol began his money paintings - his first foray into screenprinting - in which he focused on the symbolic significance of the American dollar, producing small single...
In 1962, Andy Warhol began his money paintings - his first foray into screenprinting - in which he focused on the symbolic significance of the American dollar, producing small single studies of one and two dollar bills as well as monumental gridded compositions of currency. Warhol recollected how he came upon this series: "It was one of those evenings when I'd asked around ten or fifteen people for suggestions that finally one lady friend of mine asked me the right question: 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money." One Dollar Bill (Back), 1962, is an early and iconic example from this celebrated series, exemplifying the artist's lifelong fascination with consumer culture, the 'American Dream', power, wealth, glamour, serial repetition and mass production.
Peder Bonnier, New York Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich Gabriele and Tilman Osterwold, Stuttgart Annett Osterwold Collection, Berlin Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St.Moritz
Exhibitions
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Stuttgart, Würtembergischer Kunstverein, Andy Warhol - Retrospektiv, July 1993 - February 1994, p. 56, illustrated in colour Venice, Fondazione Cini, Robert Rauschenberg & Andy Warhol - Us Silkscreeners..., 12 May - 27 August 2017, pp. 47-48, illustrated in colour
Publications
Georg Frei and Neil Printz, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculpture, 1961-1963, New York 2002, vol. 01, p. 144, no. 158, illustrated in colour