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Kiku (FS.II.308), 1983
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Details
Medium: hand-signed screenprint on BFK Rives
Year: 1983
Edition: 353
Sheet size: 19.75 x 26"
Image size: 19.75 x 26"
Framed size: 32 x 38"
Signature: signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left
Year: 1983
Edition: 353
Sheet size: 19.75 x 26"
Image size: 19.75 x 26"
Framed size: 32 x 38"
Signature: signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left
About the Work
"Kiku (FS.II.308)" is a screenprint on BFK Rives created by Andy Warhol in 1983. From the edition of 353, the artwork is signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left. The artwork is framed in a contemporary white frame and has a framed size of 32 x 38". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Andy Warhol’s "Kiku" suite occupies a fascinating place within his late printmaking: intimate in scale, radiant in color, and unusually specific in its cultural address. Commissioned by Tokyo’s Gendai Hanga Center in 1983, the portfolio takes its title from the Japanese word for chrysanthemum, a flower long associated with Japan’s Imperial House. Warhol had already found poetry in flowers, most famously through his 1960s and 1970s Flowers works, but "Kiku" feels different: less like a borrowed image from mass media, and more like a cultivated offering made for an audience that had come to value him deeply.
That relationship had been building for years. Warhol’s 1974 retrospective at the Daimaru Department Store in Tokyo helped open a serious Japanese collector base for his work, and by the early 1980s the Gendai Hanga Center saw in his flower imagery a natural bridge between Pop and Japanese visual tradition. The chrysanthemum gave Warhol a subject that was both decorative and loaded: courtly, ceremonial, and instantly recognizable, yet fully available to his language of repetition, cropping, and electric color.
"FS.II.308," the second print in the "Kiku" portfolio, is especially seductive - two chrysanthemum forms press against a divided field of grey, blue, and hot pink. Yellow linear drawing flickers across the petals like calligraphy, while the screen-printed color sits boldly and flatly, creating the unmistakable tension collectors love in Warhol: machine-made image, human irregularity.
The charm of "Kiku" lies in that tension. Warhol’s casual approach to silkscreening allowed imperfect registration, uneven inking, and layered accidents to remain visible. Rather than diminish the print, these effects animate it. The flower appears at once elegant and artificial, ancient and contemporary, refined and candy-bright – an image that softens Pop’s cool surface without losing its edge.
About the Artist
Kiku (FS.II.308), 1983
Regular price
$88,500.00
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