Dollar Sign by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign by Andy Warhol
The subject of ‘Dollar Bills’ had provided the motif for Warhol’s breakthrough series of 1961, which in turn had prompted his revolutionary exploration of the silkscreen process for creating his paintings. Twenty years on Warhol revisited the subject of money, this time focussing on the elegant curvilinear form of the dollar sign itself. Unlike the monochromatic and static 1961 ‘Dollar Bill’ paintings, Warhol’s 1981 ‘Dollar Signs’ pulsated with vibrant hues, layered energy, as if celebrating the artist’s mastery over his adopted medium. Based on one of Warhol’s own drawings, the stylized $ motif here seems to reverberate in crimson red, pink, and gold against a baby-blue background. In his seminal 1989 publication on the artist, David Bourdon reflects, “Warhol’s Dollar Signs are brazen, perhaps even insolent reminders that pictures by brand-name artists are metaphors for money, a situation that never bothered him”.


Andy Warhol Dollar Sign’s
With its striking colours and rhythmic repetition of the single $ motif, Dollar Sign epitomises Andy Warhol’s singular artistic vision, one that would surprise and captivate in the 1980s and has continued to do so more than three decades later.
About the Artist:
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Andy Warhol’s works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. Andy Warhol’s Marilyn and Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans are some of the most recognized and collectible of his artworks. From Andy Warhol Paintings to Andy Warhol Prints and unique pieces, the artist’s works are available for sale from Guy Hepner.
More than twenty years after his death, Andy Warhol remains one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture. Warhol’s life and work inspires creative thinkers worldwide thanks to his enduring imagery, his artfully cultivated celebrity, and the ongoing research of dedicated scholars. His impact as an artist is far deeper and greater than his one prescient observation that “everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” His omnivorous curiosity resulted in an enormous body of work that spanned every available medium and most importantly contributed to the collapse of boundaries between high and low culture.
A skilled social networker, Warhol parlayed his fame, one connection at a time, to the status of a globally recognized brand. Decades before widespread reliance on portable media devices, he documented his daily activities and interactions on his traveling audio tape recorder and beloved Minox 35EL camera. Predating the hyper-personal outlets now provided online, Warhol captured life’s every minute detail in all its messy, ordinary glamour and broadcast it through his work, to a wide and receptive audience.
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Artwork

Dollar Sign (Painting) by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign (Painting) by Andy Warhol

Dollar Sign 9 (Red) by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign 9 (Red) by Andy Warhol

Dollar Sign 9 (Blue) by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign 9 (Blue) by Andy Warhol

Single $ by Andy Warhol (Orange)
Single $ by Andy Warhol (Orange)

Dollar Sign (4) by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign (4) by Andy Warhol

Single $ by Andy Warhol (Red)
Single $ by Andy Warhol (Red)

Single $ by Andy Warhol (Purple)
Single $ by Andy Warhol (Purple)

Dollar Sign 284 (Quad) by Andy Warhol
Dollar Sign 284 (Quad) by Andy Warhol

Single Dollar Sign F.S. II 278 by Andy Warhol (Green)
Single Dollar Sign F.S. II 278 by Andy Warhol (Green)

Single $ by Andy Warhol (Yellow)
Single $ by Andy Warhol (Yellow)

White Nine Dollar Signs by Andy Warhol
White Nine Dollar Signs by Andy Warhol
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