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$9 (Pink) (FS.II.285-286), 1982
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Details
Medium: hand-signed unique screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1982
Edition: 47
Sheet size: 40 x 32"
Image size: 40 x 32"
Framed size: 49 x 41"
Signature: signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left center
Year: 1982
Edition: 47
Sheet size: 40 x 32"
Image size: 40 x 32"
Framed size: 49 x 41"
Signature: signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left center
About the Work
"$9 (Pink) (FS.II.285-286)" is a unique screenprint on Lenox Museum Board created by Andy Warhol in 1982. From the edition of 47, the artwork is signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left center. The artwork is framed in a custom closed-corner gold-leaf frame and has a framed size of 49 x 41". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Andy Warhol’s "$ (9)" screenprints from 1982 present the dollar sign as both image and subject: a symbol of money, desire, branding, and exchange transformed into a bold visual motif. Rather than treating commerce as something outside of art, Warhol placed it directly at the center of the picture. The result is a work that feels unmistakably Warholian: direct, graphic, self-aware, and visually immediate.
The dollar sign occupied a natural place within Warhol’s vocabulary. Throughout his career, he returned to images drawn from consumer culture and mass circulation — soup cans, Coca-Cola bottles, celebrities, advertisements, and logos — not simply to critique them, but to reflect the world as he saw it. By the early 1980s, Warhol himself had become inseparable from questions of fame, value, and market identity. In the Dollar Sign works, he turned the most familiar emblem of financial value into an image about how value is created, repeated, displayed, and desired.
In "$ (9)," catalogued as FS.II.285–286, nine hand-drawn dollar signs are arranged in a grid-like formation across the sheet. The repetition gives the composition structure, while the irregular contours and shifting color keep it lively and individualized. Each symbol has the looseness of drawing, but the overall image has the punch of advertising, signage, and commercial design. Warhol’s dollar signs are not neutral typographic marks; they behave more like characters, each one animated by its own color, pressure, and personality.
A key feature of these prints is that each impression was printed in a unique colorway. This is not a case where every sheet in the edition looks essentially the same. The subject remains consistent, but the palette changes from impression to impression, making color a central part of each work’s identity. One example may feel brighter and more electric; another may be cooler, denser, or more graphic. That variation is especially important in the "$ (9)" prints because the repeated symbol depends so strongly on rhythm, contrast, and visual balance.
"$ (9)" sits in a strong position within Warhol’s print market. The dollar sign is one of his clearest late motifs, connected directly to his interest in commerce, celebrity, and the mechanisms of value. These works are visually accessible, conceptually sharp, and large enough to have real wall presence. Their appeal lies not only in the recognizability of the dollar sign, but in Warhol’s ability to turn a familiar symbol into a vivid meditation on art, money, and desire.
About the Artist
$9 (Pink) (FS.II.285-286), 1982
Regular price
$445,000.00
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