Giant Panda
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.295)
Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New-York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Catalogue Raisonne: Feldman & Schellmann II.295

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

 

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

 

 

This print depicts a Giant Panda in bold red and pink rendered against a white backdrop. Blue gestural lines delineate the panda’s body and facial features. The panda is sitting in the center of the composition, looking straight at the viewer of the print.

The panda, with its distinctive black and white coat, is adored by the world and considered a national treasure in China. This bear also has a special significance for WWF because it has been our logo since our founding in 1961. Pandas live mainly in temperate forests high in the mountains of southwest China, where they subsist almost entirely on bamboo. They must eat around 26 to 84 pounds of it every day, depending on what part of the bamboo they are eating. They use their enlarged wrist bones that function as opposable thumbs.

Giant Panda | Species | WWF (worldwildlife.org)

Giant Pandas live in the mountain ranges of China, however farming and deforestation have produced an existential threat to this beautiful species. As the panda gazes out the print, the viewer is forced to think about the future of this endangered species. Giant Pandas have been an endangered species for a long time. Around 1,500 specimens can be found right now. A Giant Panda requires a lot of effort to conserve its species as it needs to consume more than 20 kilograms of bamboo leaves and shoots every day for adequate nutrients, which can last it for a maximum of 16 hours. 2060 pandas live in the wild, and the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) considers them to be endangered and rather close to extinction. The problem is that pandas are not reproducing frequently, and that makes them increasingly rare. As the population gets smaller, they still retain the same reproductive habits. Their habitat is slowly destroyed, and as the human population grows in China, they will have fewer and fewer places to live.

 

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Auction Market Overview

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Regular Editions

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Rago: 12 March 2025
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 224,400
NEW AUCTION RECORD FOR GIANT PANDA

Mainichi: 19 October 2024
Estimated: JPY 10,000,000 – 15,000,000
JPY 23,000,000 / USD 153,826

Andy WARHOL
Giant Panda from ENDANGERED SPECIES (F & S.II.295), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and ed.150 at lower left image, with a copyright stamp on verso

Sotheby’s New-York: 19 April 2023
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 127,000

ANDY WARHOL
Giant Panda, from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and numbered 8/150

Artnet Auctions: 21 December 2022
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 175,000

ANDY WARHOL
Giant Panda, from Endangered Species, 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and numbered 86/150

Sotheby’s New-York: 19 July 2022
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 151,200

ANDY WARHOL
Giant Panda, from Endangered Species (F&S II.295), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil Andy Warhol and numbered 33/150 (lower left)

Phillips London: 21 January 2021
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 50,000
GBP 69,300 / USD 95,070

Bonhams New-York: 1 November 2019
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 68,825

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Giant Panda, from Endangered Species (F. & S. II.295), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and numbered EP 5/5,
An Exhibition Proof aside from the edition of 150 and 30 artist proofs

LA Modern: 20 October 2019
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 53,125

ANDY WARHOL (1928–1987)
Giant Panda (from Endangered Species Portfolio), 1983
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Edition: #112 of 150
Signed with edition lower left edge of sheet
Retains printer’s blind stamp lower left edge of sheet

Giant Panda (42/150)
Bonhams Los Angeles: 1 May 2018
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 75,000

Giant Panda (AP 27/30)
Christie’s New-York: 20 April 2017
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 68,750

Giant Panda (131/150)
Sotheby’s London: 4 April 2017
Estimated: GBP 35,000 – 55,000
GBP 56,250 / USD 69,950

Giant Panda (116/150)
Abell Los Angeles: 21 February 2016
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 40,000
USD 50,000 (Hammer)
USD 62,500

Giant Panda (AP 6/30)
Christie’s London: 18 September 2013
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 20,000 / USD 31,930

Giant Panda (120/150)
Christie’s London: 20 March 2013
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 25,000
GBP 40,000 / USD 60,545

Giant Panda (116/150)
Christie’s New-York: 26 October 2011
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 40,000

 

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Trial Proofs

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Giant Panda (TP 29/30), 1983

Christie’s New-York: 1 May 2013
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 25,000
USD 68,750
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Giant Panda, from Endangered Species (see F. & S. II.295), 1983
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered ‘TP 29/30’
A unique trial proof, the edition was 150 plus 30 artist’s proofs

Christie’s New-York: 13 December 1999
Estimated: USD 6,000 – 8,000
USD 6,325
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Giant Panda, for Endangered Species (F. and S. B.295), 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