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Oversized color limited edition 36 x 36 artist's proof screenprint entitled 'Kachina Dolls,' from Warhol’s 1986 Cowboys and Indians series, numbered AP41/50, signed in pencil in the lower left, “Andy Warhol.” Published by Gaultney, Klineman Art Inc., New York, and printed on Lenox Museum Board by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York. Archivally matted and framed to an overall size of 46.5 x 47. In very fine condition.
In 'Kachina Dolls,' Andy Warhol shifts his focus from Hollywood and historical archetypes to Indigenous cultural symbolism, presenting a pair of Hopi ceremonial figures through his distinctive Pop Art lens. The image draws on traditional carved Kachina dolls—objects created to embody spiritual beings and to pass cultural knowledge across generations—reimagined here in vivid color and sharp contrast.
Rather than portraying a single iconic personality, Warhol emphasizes pattern, form, and repetition, transforming the dolls into bold visual motifs. The composition’s bright palette and flattened forms simultaneously celebrate the power of the original objects while inviting reflection on the tension between cultural tradition and modernity.
Reference: Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné, Feldman & Schellmann II.381.
Provenance: Martin Lawrence Galleries, SoHo, 1993.
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