Fiesta Pig
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Year: 1979
Sheet: 21 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches (54.6 x 77.5 cm)
Edition: 200
Artist’s Proofs: 10 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 5 PP which are proof variations
Hors Commerce: 1 HC
Publisher: Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg, Germany
Commissioned by the publisher for the readers of Die Welt, a German newspaper
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.184
Signed and numbered in pencil lower right
With the blindstamp of the printer and the artist’s copyright stamp on the reverse
In Fiesta Pig, Warhol transforms an ordinary farm animal into an unlikely protagonist, casting it under the bright lights of a surreal dinner table. Rendered in his iconic silkscreen technique, the pig, outlined with his trademark graphic contour, sniffs its way through a kaleidoscope of plates and glasses. But this is no traditional feast: the tabletop is a playground of saturated hues: electric yellows, acid greens, and blazing corals, flattened against a gradient background that moves from deep blue to crimson twilight. Warhol, ever the master of irony, takes a creature often consumed and flips the narrative. Who’s feasting on whom?
This work is part of Warhol’s lesser-known yet wonderfully subversive explorations of Americana, where barnyard meets Pop in a cocktail of humor, critique, and visual punch. The pig, poised like a guest of honor, becomes a stand-in for the American consumer, snout-first in abundance. Playful, bold, and layered with meaning, Fiesta Pig is a witty reminder that even in the most garish celebrations, Warhol never lets us forget the absurdities of appetite.
Auction Results
Forum Auctions: 10 December 2025
Estimated: GBP 22,000 – 26,000
GBP 22,000 (Hammer)
GBP 28,924 / USD 38,670
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Fiesta Pig (Feldman & Schellmann II.184), 1979
Screenprint in colors on Arches paper
Signed in pencil
Numbered from the edition of 200
Published by Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg
Karl & Faber: 5 December 2025
Estimated: EUR 15,000 – 20,000
EUR 18,415 / USD 21,350
ANDY WARHOL (1928 Pittsburgh – New York 1987)
Fiesta Pig (Feldmann/Schellmann II.184), 1979
Color silkscreen on vellum
One of 200 numbered copies
Verso with the artist’s copyright stamp
Published by Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg for the readers of the magazine “Die Welt”
Bonhams London: 25 June 2025
Estimated: GBP 12,000 – 18,000
GBP 20,480 / USD 27,975
Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed and numbered 120/200 in pencil
(there were also ten artist’s proofs)
With the artist’s copyright stamp verso
Estimated: EUR 10,000 – 15,000
EUR 20,400 / USD 21,910
ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Fiesta Pig, 1979
Screenprint in colors on on Arches 88 paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 2/200
Dorotheum Vienna: 24 May 2024
Estimated: EUR 14,000 – 18,000
EUR 26,000 / USD 28,184
ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh 1928–1987 New York)
Fiesta Pig, 1979
Screenprint in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed Andy Warhol, no. 200 from the edition of 200 numbered impressions
Van Ham Cologne: 30 November 2022
Estimated: EUR 12,000 – 18,000
EUR 31,680 / USD 32,700
ANDY WARHOL (1928 Pittsburgh, PA/USA – 1987 New York)
Fiesta Pig, 1979
Color serigraph on Arches 88
Signed and numbered 115/200
Christie’s New-York: 16 July 2019
Estimated: USD 8,000 – 12,000
USD 60,000
AUCTION RECORD FOR FIESTA PIG
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Fiesta Pig, 1979
Screen-print in colors on Arches 88 paper
Signed, dedicated ‘To lydia love Andy Warhol’ and annotated ‘HC’ in pencil on the reverse
(a hors-commerce proof, the edition was 200)