275 - Sidewalk (FS.II.304, Eight by Eight), 1983
Details
Year: 1983
Edition: 349
Image size: 29 x 42"
Framed size: 38 x 51"
Signature: signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left
About the Work
"Sidewalk (FS.II.304)" is a hand-signed screenprint created in 1983, by Andy Warhol, for his portfolio "Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary". From the edition of 349, the artwork is signed 'Andy Warhol' and annotated lower left. The artwork is framed in a custom, closed corner, gold leaf frame and has a framed size of 38 x 51". The artwork ships framed and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Andy Warhol’s "Sidewalk (FS II.304, Eight by Eight), 1983," captures the artist’s enduring fascination with celebrity, reproduction, and American spectacle. Created for "Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary," a landmark fundraising portfolio for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the print situates Warhol among an exceptional group of peers, reflecting the collaborative and cultural energy of the early 1980s art scene.
Warhol’s contribution draws from his own photograph of the signatures, footprints, and handprints embedded in the sidewalk at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, a site where the celebrity is ritualized and literally set in stone. Featuring marks left by Cary Grant, Judy Garland, Jack Nicholson, and Shirley Temple, the image documents a performative moment of fame, where the body becomes both presence and brand. Through screenprinting, Warhol abstracts these imprints, emphasizing their graphic qualities while distancing them from the individuals themselves. The result is an image that feels simultaneously intimate and impersonal, rooted in real physical gesture yet transformed into a repeatable cultural artifact.
By focusing on traces rather than faces, Warhol reinforces a central theme of his work: the reduction of identity to symbol. The absence of the celebrities’ bodies heightens their mythic status, allowing their signatures and impressions to stand in as shorthand for fame itself. In "Sidewalk (FS II.304, Eight by Eight), 1983," glamour is stripped of narrative and reduced to surface, repetition, and imprint—echoing Warhol’s broader exploration of how mass media preserves memory not through depth, but through visibility and endless reproduction.
About the Artist
275 - Sidewalk (FS.II.304, Eight by Eight), 1983
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