$9 (Pink) (FS.II.285-286), 1982

"$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.

Warhol’s "$ (9)" screenprints from 1982, are Pop Art with the volume turned all the way up: nine hand-drawn dollar signs marching across the sheet like a chorus line, each one landing in a different riot of color. Catalogued in Feldman & Schellmann as FS II.285–286, the works were issued as an edition of 47 total impressions—35 numbered, 10 artist’s proofs, and 2 printer’s proofs—and, crucially, each impression is unique in its color combination. Auction and market references consistently describe them as “unique color variants,” which is exactly what makes this group so magnetic to collectors.

That uniqueness matters. In much of Warhol’s work, repetition is the point: the same image, again and again, like mass media itself. Here, repetition gets mischievous. The motif is serial, but the color never quite behaves. One impression might float nine signs over a white field; another pushes them into hot reds, acid yellows, electric blues, or inky blacks that feel half glamorous, half graffitied. The result is a portfolio that looks instantly Warholian yet refuses to be purely mechanical. It is printmaking with personality.

And of course the image could not be more Warhol. The dollar sign was one of his most direct emblems—cheeky, stylish, and perfectly on-brand for an artist who understood that commerce, celebrity, and desire were already part of modern visual culture. But the "$ (9)" sheets are not cynical. They are playful. The sketchy contour has the snap of a quick drawing; the layered inks give the symbol swagger. Money becomes a picture, then a performance, then a joke everyone is delighted to be in on.

For collectors, these works hit a rare sweet spot: they carry one of Warhol’s most recognizable late motifs, they sit within a tightly defined and finite edition, and yet no two examples are interchangeable. You are not buying just a Dollar Sign print; you are buying your Dollar Sign print— with a one-of-a-kind palette, rhythm, and attitude. That is the thrill of this series. It offers the authority of a canonical Warhol image with the individuality of a near one-off.

In other words: these prints do exactly what great Pop Art should do. They wink at money, glamorize it, tease it, and transform it into something brighter, stranger, and far more fun than cash itself.