Hammer and Sickle

Portfolio of four screen-prints in colors
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
Year: 1977
Sheet: 30×40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Edition: 50
Artist’s Proofs: 10
Other: 2 Printer’s Proofs (PP), 1 Hors Commerce (HC)
Publisher: Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc., New York
Printer: Rupert Jason Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.161-164

Each signed and numbered in pencil, lower left

 

 

1. Plate I (F&S II.161)

2. Plate II (F&S II.162)

3. Plate III (F&S II.163)

4. Plate IV (F&S II.164)

 

Hammer and Sickle (Special Edition)

 

Hammer & Sickle (Special Edition)

The complete set of seven screen-prints in colors
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
Year: 1977
Sheet: 30×40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Edition: 10
Publisher: Andy Warhol Enterprises, Inc., New York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.165-171

Each signed and numbered in pencil

Based on the print II.164, this portfolio illustrates the five separate colors of the print progression (II.165 to II.169), plus one with only the drawing line (II.171), and one with the black separation in registration with the drawing line (II.170).

 

Auction Results

Christie’s online: 27 March 2025
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 17,640 / USD 22,756

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Hammer and Sickle (Feldman & Schellmann II.162), 1977
Screenprint in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
Signed in pencil, inscribed H.C.
An hors commerce impression
Aside from the edition of fifty (there were also ten artist’s proofs)

Phillips New-York: 22 October 2024
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 22,860

ANDY WARHOL
Hammer and Sickle: one plate (see F. & S. 163), 1977
Screenprint in colors on thin light blue wove paper
Sheet: 30 x 40 1/8 inches (76.2 x 101.9 cm)
With the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board and The Estate of Andy Warhol inkstamps on the reverse
Initialed ‘T.J.H.’ by Timothy J. Hunt of the Andy Warhol Foundation
Annotated ‘069C’ and ‘UT.002’ in pencil on the reverse
One of several unique variants aside from the original edition of 50 and 10 artist’s proofs

Sotheby’s New-York: 19 April 2023
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 80,000
USD 69,850

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Hammer and Sickle, 1977
The complete set of four screen-prints in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
Each signed in pencil and numbered 12/50

Sotheby’s London: 15 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 12,700

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Hammer and Sickle (F. & S. II.164), 1977
Screen-print in colors on green wove paper
An unpublished trial proof, presumably unique on this support
Aside from the edition of 50 plus ten artist’s proofs
With the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Andy Warhol Estate inkstamps verso, annotated in pencil with the AWAAB reference number ‘070E UT.002’

Sotheby’s New-York: 27 October 2022
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 107,100

ANDY WARHOL
Hammer and Sickle
The complete set of four screen-prints in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
Each signed in pencil and numbered 9/50

Sotheby’s New-York: 22 April 2021
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 40,000
USD 100,800

ANDY WARHOL
Hammer and Sickle (Feldman & Schellmann II. 161-164), 1977
The complete set of four screen-prints in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
Each signed in pencil and numbered 43/50

Phillips New-York: 24 July 2020
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 93,750

ANDY WARHOL
Hammer and Sickle, 1977
The complete set of four screen-prints in colors on Strathmore Bristol paper
All signed and numbered 5/50 in pencil (there were also 10 artist’s proofs)