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Title:Flowers
Artist:Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
Date:1967–68
Medium:Acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas
Dimensions:9 ft. 7 1/4 in. × 9 ft. 7 1/2 in. (292.7 × 293.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Brant, 1979
Object Number:1979.549
[Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1968–70; stock no. LC 906; sold on February 16, 1970 to Brant]; Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Brant, Greenwich, Conn. (1970–79; sale, Sotheby's, New York, May 18, 1978, no. 214, as "Ten Foot Flowers," not sold; sale, Sotheby's, London, December 5, 1978, no. 106a, as "Ten foot Flowers," not sold; their gift to MMA)
Pasadena Art Museum. "Andy Warhol," May 12–June 21, 1970, unnumbered cat. (lent by Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Brant, New York).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. "Andy Warhol," July 4–September 6, 1970, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Summer Loan Exhibition," July 17–September 30, 1979, unnum. brochure (dated 1967; lent by Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Brant).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design," December 14, 1983–September 2, 1984, unnum. checklist (installed in galleries of Costume Institute exhibition).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Dance," December 17, 1986–September 6, 1987, unnumbered cat. (p. 25) [installed in galleries of Costume Institute exhibition)(installed in galleries of Costume Institute exhibition].
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," September 10–December 31, 2012, no. 35.
Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol Museum. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," February 4–April 28, 2013, no. 35.
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Andy Warhol–From A to B and Back Again," November 12, 2018–March 31, 2019, not in catalogue.
Rainer Crone. Andy Warhol. New York, 1970, p. 309, no. 593, calls it "Ten Foot Flowers," dates it 1967, and locates it in the collection of Peter M. Brant, New York.
Hans-Rainer Crone. "Das Bildnerische Werk Andy Warhols." PhD diss., Freie Universität, 1976, p. 392, no. 946.
Lowery S. Sims in "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1979–1980. New York, 1980, p. 63, ill.
Georg Frei, Neil Printz, and Sally King-Nero, ed. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 2B, Paintings and Sculptures 1964–1969. London, 2004, pp. 15, 345–46, 365, no. 2047, ill. p. 357 (color), call it "Ten-Foot Flowers".
Mark Rosenthal inRegarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 19, 135–36, 280 n. 23, p. 288, no. 35, ill. p. 141 (color), discusses Flower series.
Marla Prather inRegarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, p. 147, discusses Flower series.
Blake Gopnik. Warhol. 1st ed. New York, 2020, p. 555, discusses Flower series.
Iria Candela in David Breslin and Iria Candela. The Roof Garden Commission. Petrit Halilaj: Abetare. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2024, p. 35, fig. 14 (color).
Written by Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
1967
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