Black Rhinoceros
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.301)
Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New-York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Catalogue Raisonne: Feldman & Schellmann II.301

Signed and numbered in pencil, lower left or right
With the publisher’s inkstamp and the artist’s copyright stamp on reverse

 

Black Rhinoceros is part of Endangered Species
(Click on picture below to access the Catalogue Entry)

Among black and white rhinos, black rhinos are the smaller of the two African rhino species. Black and white rhinos can be distinguished by the shape of their lips. Black rhinos have hooked upper lips, whereas white rhinos are characterized by a square lip. Black rhinos are browsers, rather than grazers, meaning they are herbivores who do not feed on low-growing vegetation, and their pointed lip helps them feed on leaves from bushes and trees. They have two horns, which grow continually from the skin at their base throughout the rhino’s life (like human fingernails). The front horn is longer than the rear horn, averaging around 19 inches long.

Black Rhino | Species | WWF (worldwildlife.org)

The population of black rhinos declined dramatically in the 20th century at the hands of European hunters and settlers. Between 1960 and 1995, black rhino numbers dropped by a sobering 98%, to less than 2,500 individuals. Since then, the species has made a tremendous comeback from the brink of extinction. Thanks to persistent conservation efforts across Africa, black rhino numbers have doubled from their historic low 20 years ago to more than 6,000 today. However, the black rhino is still considered critically endangered, and a lot of work remains to bring their population up to even a fraction of what it once was—and to ensure that it stays there. Wildlife crime—in this case, poaching of rhinos for the illegal international market for their horns—continues to plague the species and threaten its recovery.

 

 

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Auction Market Overview

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Regular Edition

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Dorotheum Vienna: 23 May 2024
Estimated: EUR 80,000 – 120,000
EUR 156,000 / USD 169,104

ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh 1928–1987 New York)
Black Rhinoceros from the portfolio Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed Andy Warhol, no. 42 from the edition of 150 impressions

Sotheby’s New-York: 16 December 2019
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 68,750

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
BLACK RHINOCEROS (FELDMAN & SCHELLMANN II.301), from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and inscribed ‘AP 28/30’
An artist’s proof aside from the numbered edition of 150

Christie’s New-York: 25 October 2018
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 81,250

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Black Rhinoceros, from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, inscribed ‘PP 3/5’ (a printer’s proof, the edition was 150)

Phillips New-York: 17 October 2018
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 87,500

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Trial Proofs

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Black Rhinoceros (TP 20/30), 1985

Phillips London: 19 September 2024
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 190,500 / USD 247,460
TRIAL PROOF

Black Rhinoceros (TP 2/30), 1985

Christie’s New-York: 20 April 2023
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 252,000
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Black Rhinoceros, from Endangered Species, 1983
Unique screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered ‘TP 2/30’ (a trial proof, the edition was 150)

Black Rhinoceros (TP /30), 1985

Ketterer Kunst: 10 June 2017
Estimated: EUR 20,000
EUR 75,000 / USD 78,750
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Black Rhinoceros, from Endangered Species, 1983
Silkscreen in colors
Signed and numbered on verso
One of 30 trial proofs aside from the edition of 150

Black Rhinoceros (Unique), 1985

Sotheby’s New-York: 30 October 2010
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 50,000
USD 50,000
ASIDE TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Black Rhinoceros (see F. & S. IIB.301), from the Endangered Species porfolio, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
A unique color trial proof
With the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board stamp on the verso, marked ‘outside the edition’
Inscribed in pencil on the verso by the AWAAB ink stamp: A411.076

Black Rhinoceros (TP 12/30), 1985

Christie’s Los Angeles: 13 December 1999
Estimated: USD 4,000 – 5,000
USD 9,200
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Black Rhinoceros, for Endangered Species (F. and S. B.301), 1983
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