Bald Eagle
from Endangered Species
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1983
Sheet: 38×38 inches (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Edition: 150
Artist’s Proofs: 30 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 5 PP
Exhibitor’s Proofs: 5 EP
Hors Commerce: 3 HC
Bon a Tirer: 1 BAT
Other: 10 numbered in Roman numerals intended for wildlife organizations
Trial Proofs: 30 TP with unique color combination
(see Feldman & Schellmann IIB.296)
Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New-York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Catalogue Raisonne: Feldman & Schellmann II.296
Signed and numbered in pencil, lower left or right
With the publisher’s inkstamp and the artist’s copyright stamp on reverse
Bald Eagle is part of Endangered Species
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A national symbol of strength, courage, freedom, and immortality the bald eagle is proudly stamped across the coinage and official seals of the American government. While the national bird of the United States was largely thought to be chosen due to the founding fathers’ fondness for comparing their new republic to the Roman Republic in which eagle imagery was prominent, the bald eagle has long been central to the sacred religious and spiritual practices of many Native American cultures. Set against a boldly patriotic red, at first glance Andy Warhol’s Bald Eagle is a stately expression national pride. However, not dissimilar to his earlier depictions of the Statue of Liberty and the former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bald Eagle is anything but pomp and circumstance.
A brilliant predator of the skies, the bald eagle exhibits the same bad boy persona as Warhol’s iconic depictions of Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley. Warhol’s artwork refreshes the viewer’s perspective by bringing us into a new relationship with the object and its image. Supermarket products, news media, film stars and advertisements are all given the artist’s signature treatment: casting everyday subjects in kaleidoscopic color and repeating images machine-like and in series. The artist’s Endangered Species is no different. The psychedelic luminous colors and energetic lines animate his subject. The threatened animals are represented in the same way as the artist’s film and TV stars: as cultural icons that are impossible to ignore.
Auction Market Overview
Regular Editions
Mainichi Auction Tokyo: 19 July 2025
Estimated: JPY 25,000,000 – 35,000,000
PASSED
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle from ENDANGERED SPECIES (F & S.II.296), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and ed. AP 30 at lower left image
With a copyright stamp on verso
Estimated: USD 90,000 – 120,000
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Artnet Auctions: 30 January 2025
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 212,500
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle (from Endangered Species) (F&S II.296), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered 3/150 in pencil
Santa Monica Auctions: 8 December 2024
Estimated: USD 80,000 – 120,000
USD 125,000 (Hammer)
USD 140,750
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Bald Eagle, 1983
Screenprint
AP from the numbered edition of 30, outside of the numbered edition of 150
Signed/numbered on recto
Lone Star Art Auction: 12 October 2024
Estimated: USD 175,000 – 225,000
USD 228,000
ANDY WARHOL (1927-1987)
Bald Eagle (FS II.296), 1983
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed lower left: Andy Warhol AP 8/30
Artnet Auctions: 10 October 2024
Estimated: USD 120,000 – 180,000
USD 187,500
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle (from Endangered Species), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered 3/150 in pencil
Sotheby’s online: 20 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 100,000 – 150,000
GBP 190,500 / USD 241,935
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR BALD EAGLE
ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and numbered 13/150
Heffel Fine Art: 25 May 2023
Estimated: CAD 100,000 – 150,000
CAD 301,250 / USD 220,890
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species, 1983
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered 114/150
Estimated: JPY 3,000,000 – 5,000,000
JPY 27,000,000 (Hammer)
JPY 31,455,000 / USD 231,123
Bald Eagle from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and editioned on lower left
Embossed on lower right
Stamped on the verso
From the edition of 150
SBI Art Auction: 29 January 2022
Estimated: JPY 8,000,000 – 12,000,000
JPY 18,400,000 / USD 159,712
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species, 1983
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered on the lower left
A Printer’s Proof aside from the edition of 150
Phillips New-York: 21 October 2021
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 90,000
USD 201,600
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species (F. & S. 296), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum board
Signed and numbered 61/150 in pencil
Christie’s New-York: 21 October 2021
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 175,000
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species, 1983
Signed in pencil, numbered 9/150
Bonhams New-York: 26 May 2021
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 125,312
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and numbered 138/150
Trial Proofs
Bald Eagle (TP 23/30), 1983
Sotheby’s New-York: 22 October 2020
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 126,000
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
BALD EAGLE (SEE F. & S. IIB.296) from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in a unique color combination on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and inscribed ‘TP 23/30’
A trial proof aside from the numbered edition of 150 plus 30 artist’s proofs and ten in Roman numerals
Bald Eagle (TP 27/30), 1983
Sotheby’s London: 30 March 2010
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 20,000
GBP 46,850
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL
Endangered Species: Bald Eagle (see f. & s. iib.296), 1983
Screenprint in a unique combination of colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil verso, numbered TP 27/30
A trial proof aside from the edition of 150
Bald Eagle (TP 7/30), 1983
Christie’s London: 21 September 2006
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 26,400
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species (F. & S. II. 296), 1983
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, inscribed TP 7/30 (aside from the edition of one hundred and fifty)
Bald Eagle (TP 12/30), 1983
Christie’s New-York: 13 December 1999
Estimated: USD 6,000 – 8,000
USD 13,800
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL
Bald Eagle, for Endangered Species (F. and S. B.296)
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered ‘T.P. 12/30’
One of 30 unique color variants aside from the edition of 150 plus 30 artist’s proofs)