ANDY WARHOL. Art Cash, lithograph, 1971.

Dimensions: 6.7 x 15.5 cm

Other:

Andy Warhol's Art Cash series, created during the 1980s, reflected his fascination with money and its symbolic power in contemporary culture. Warhol, known for his comments on consumption, mass production and the commercial world, often used money as a theme to highlight how money and art were intertwined in his age.

In creating art with depictions of banknotes, Warhol wanted to explore how money, as one of the most universally recognized symbols, functions as both a cultural and economic value. His choice to use money as an art theme can be seen as an ironic commentary on the commercialism of the art market, where artworks are often traded as value-creating objects, and how art and capitalism are closely linked.

Provenance:
Private collection.