ANDY WARHOL | Dollar Sign

Executed in 1981.This work is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. on the reverse, and numbered TOP 24.007 on the reverse of the frame.

The Estate of Andy Warhol, New York
Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York 
Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 2006, lot 290
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Compared to the 1960s, the 1970s were a relatively quiet decade in Warhol’s career in which he made fewer paintings than before. Amongst the most famous works from this time were his portraits of chairman Mao, whom he immortalized in his 1972-73 series of large-scale paintings. In addition to the communist leader, Warhol also worked on a body of work that depicts the most potent symbol of the political movement: the hammer and sickle. Painted in 1977, Hammer and Sickle can arguably be considered a counterpart to the Dollar Sign paintings, each capturing the potent symbol of economic ideologies on the opposite side of the spectrum.