$ (Quadrant) (FS.II.283), 1982

"$ (Quadrant) (FS.II.283)" is a unique screenprint on Lenox Museum Board created by Andy Warhol in 1982. From the edition of 73 of which every print is unique, the artwork is signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left center. The artwork is framed in a custom closed-corner gold-tone frame and has a framed size of 48.5 x 41". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Andy Warhol’s "$ (Quadrant) (FS.II.283), 1982," presents one of the artist’s most direct late motifs: the dollar sign as an image of value, desire, branding, and exchange. Rather than treating money as a hidden force behind art and culture, Warhol places its symbol openly at the center of the composition. The result is a work that is both visually immediate and conceptually pointed.

The dollar sign was a natural subject for Warhol. Across his career, he repeatedly turned familiar symbols of consumer life into art, not simply to critique them, but to show how modern identity and desire are shaped by images. In the "Dollar Sign" series, that logic becomes especially clear. The symbol of money becomes a kind of logo, drawing, advertisement, and self-aware joke all at once. It is blunt, but that bluntness is part of its intelligence.

In "$ (Quadrant)," Warhol divides the sheet into four colored fields, each occupied by a large dollar sign. The format gives the work a strong architectural clarity. Unlike the denser rhythm of the "$ (9)" prints, this composition is cleaner and more frontal, allowing each symbol to command its own space while still participating in the larger grid. The repetition is unmistakably Warholian, but the quadrant structure also creates variation, contrast, and movement across the sheet.

A key feature of these prints is that each impression was printed in a unique colorway. This makes the specific palette central to the identity of each work. In this example, the lavender, turquoise, mauve, and blue grounds create a cool, structured framework, while the dollar signs bring in deeper greens, reds, purples, and dark accents. The effect is bold without feeling chaotic. This individuality is important, and within the 1982 "Dollar Sign" prints, the appeal of each example lies strongly with the individual color and visual presence.

"$ (Quadrant)" stands comfortably within the strongest part of Warhol’s late print production because the subject is immediately recognizable, the scale is commanding, and the image speaks directly to Warhol’s understanding of value as both economic and visual. It is not merely a decorative money image. It is a work about how symbols acquire power, how desire attaches to images, and how value can be manufactured, repeated, displayed, and transformed. In true Warhol fashion, the dollar sign becomes both the subject of the work and a sly reflection on the world that collects it.