The Love prints celebrate tenderness, eroticism, and desire with a romantic tone rarely seen in Andy Warhol’s more famous Pop Art. The prints are characterized by soft lines, vibrant inks, and empty space, moving away from his earlier fixation on celebrity and consumerism toward a more universal human experience.

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Introduction
Love, 1983
2025 Auction Results
2024 Auction Results
2023 Auction Results
2022 Auction Results
Love (F&S II.310)
Love (F&S II.311)
Love (F&S II.312)
Love (Trial Proofs)
Complete Sets

Introduction

The series consists of a portfolio of three screenprints, each depicting a nude couple in different stages of an intimate embrace. The couple’s embrace is enhanced by a colorful aura that surrounds their bodies, suggesting attraction and a fantasy-like quality. The colors bleed and mingle at the bottom of the composition, symbolizing the couple’s union. The compositions use broad areas of white space and gestural graphic lines to emphasize the tenderness of the interaction, a style that recalls Warhol’s early career as a commercial illustrator.

In some versions, Warhol uses a double exposure effect to add dramatic layering. In contrast to his more overtly erotic Sex Parts series from 1978, the Love series crops the subjects to convey intimacy rather than explicit detail. Unlike Warhol’s famous celebrity portraits, the identity of the lovers is irrelevant. This omission makes the scene more relatable and universal. While Warhol explored erotica in earlier series, the Love prints offer a more naive and romantic take on the subject. By omitting the identities of the models, Warhol champions the universal emotion of love and desire above the cult of celebrity.

Love, 1983

Love

The complete set of three screenprints in colors
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Rives BFK paper
Year: 1983
Sheet: 26 x 19.5/8 inches (66 x 49.8 cm)
Edition: 100
Artist’s Proofs: 10 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 2 PP
Exhibitor’s Proofs: 5 EP
Hors Commerce: 16 HC for II.310, 7 HC for II.311, 17 HC for II.312
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York, USA and Ryoichi Ishida, Tokyo, Japan
Publisher: Form K.K., Tokyo, Japan
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.310-312

Each signed and numbered in pencil lower left

Love (F&S II.310)

Love (F&S II.311)

Love (F&S II.312)

2025 Auction Results

Love (F&S II.310-312), 1983

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2025
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 95,250
COMPLETE SET

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Love (Feldman & Schellmann II.310-312), 1983
The complete set of three screenprints in colors on Rives BFK paper
Each signed in pencil and numbered 3⁄100
(there were also ten artist’s proof sets)

Love (F&S II.310), 1983

Mainichi Auction Tokyo: 19 July 2025
Estimated: JPY 1,500,000 – 2,000,000
JPY 2,415,000 / USD 16,230

ANDY WARHOL
LOVE Pl.1 (FELDMAN & SCHELLMANN II.310), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and ed.100 at lower left image

Love (F&S II.310-312), 1983

Sotheby’s online: 15 July 2025
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 63,500
COMPLETE SET

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Love (Feldman & Schellmann II.310-312), 1983
The complete set of three screenprints in colors on Rives BFK wove paper
Each signed in pencil and numbered 62/100 (lower left)
This set is number 62 from the edition of 100 plus ten artist’s proof sets

Love TP (see F&S II.310-312), 1983

Christie’s online: 27 March 2025
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 25,000
GBP 23,940 / USD 30,883
UNSIGNED TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Love (see Feldman & Schellmann II.310), 1983
Unique screenprint in colors on black wove paper
A trial proof before the edition of one hundred

2024 Auction Results

Love (F&S II.310), 1983

Mallet Japan: 10 October 2024
Estimated: JPY 2,000,000 – 3,000,000
JPY 2,000,000 (Hammer)
JPY 2,330,000 / USD 15,680

ANDY WARHOL
LOVE (FELDMAN & SCHELLMANN II.311), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and ed.46/100

Love (F&S II.310), 1983

Mainichi Auction: 3 February 2024
Estimated: JPY 2,000,000 – 3,000,000
JPY 2,300,000 / USD 15,505

Andy WARHOL | アンディ・ウォーホル
Love Plate 1 (F & S.II.310), 1983
Screenprint
Signed at lower left image
Editioned AP in the lower right margin

2023 Auction Results

Love (F&S II.310), 1983

SBI Art Auction: 26 May 2023
Estimated: JPY 1,800,000 – 2,800,000
JPY 2,070,000 / USD 14,786

ANDY WARHOL
Love (F&S II.310), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and numbered on the lower part from the edition of 100

2022 Auction Results

Love (F&S II.310), 1983

Phillips Hong-Kong: 27 April 2022
Estimated: HKD 70,000 – 90,000
HKD 163,800 / USD 20,930

ANDY WARHOL
II.310 from the series Love 1983
Silkscreen on paper
Signed and numbered ’35/100 Andy Warhol’ lower left

Love (F&S II.311), 1983

SBI Art Auction: 28 October 2022
Estimated: JPY 1,800,000 – 2,800,000
JPY 3,335,000 / USD 22,797

ANDY WARHOL
Love (F&S II.311), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and numbered on the lower part from the edition of 100

Love (F&S II.312), 1983

Heritage Auctions: 26 October 2022
USD 40,000

ANDY WARHOL
Untitled (F&S II.312), from Love, 1983
Screenprint in colors on BFK Rives paper
Signed and annotated ‘E.P. 5/5’ in pencil, lower left
A Proof aside from the edition of 100

Love (F&S II.312), 1983

K Auction: 28 September 2022
Estimated: KRW 33,000,000 – 50,000,000
KRW 37,950,000 / USD 26,601

ANDY WARHOL
Love (F&S II.312), 1983
Screenprint
Signed and numbered on the lower part from the edition of 100

Love (F&S II.312), 1983

LA Modern: 8 September 2022
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 40,000
USD 37,500

ANDY WARHOL (1928–1987)
Love (312), 1983
Screenprint in colors on BFK Rives
Signed and numbered to lower left ‘54/100 Andy Warhol’