Pete Rose

Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1985
Sheet: 39 3/8 x 31 3/2 inches (100×80 cm)
Edition: 50
Artist’s Proofs: 14 AP numbered in Roman numerals
Printer’s Proofs: 8 PP
Trial Proofs: 30 TP
Progressive Proofs: 4 PP
Final Proof / Right to Print: 1 RtP
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Publisher: Cincinnatti Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Published by the Cincinnati Art Museum through Carl Solway Gallery Inc., in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the authorization of Pete Rose Enterprises Inc. to raise funds for the Museum
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.360B

Signed and numbered in pencil lower right
With the blindstamp of the printer, and artist’s copyright inkstamp on verso

Pete Rose 360B was created by Andy Warhol in 1985, the year that Pete Rose broke the all-time hits record. Commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum, Warhol created an 4 image, acrylic on canvas screen print that was based off a photo by Cincinnati photographer, Gordon Baer. True to Pop Art style, the screen print mimics the style of a classic baseball card. Warhol produced 50 impressions of color screen prints of one of the four images. Andy used colors that exemplified who Pete was: a colorful character. Warhol died two years after this commission and Pete Rose was banned from baseball for placing illegal bets.

ANDY WARHOL
Pete Rose, 1985
Acrylic on canvas with silkscreen image, in 4 panels
Each: 54×44 inches (137.2 x 111.8 cm)
Cincinnati Art Museum
Pete Rose, Andy Warhol (American, b.1928, d.1987), painter – Cincinnati Art Museum

One of his late-period celebrity portraits, Warhol used acrylic paint on a canvas with four silk-screen images of Rose in a right-handed batting stance. Each image has a different color and the work is notable for being in the style of a baseball card. “It was so brilliant of Andy to make it into a baseball card,” said Carl Soloway, the Cincinnati Art Dealer who approached Warhol about creating the portrait. “And that’s so interesting because baseball cards are collectible and negotiable. So it was a statement about the commercialization of art, just like his soup cans are about the commercialization of branding.”

Auction Results

Sotheby’s New-York: 15 April 2025
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 101,600

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Pete Rose (see Feldman & Schellmann II.360B), 1985
Screenprint in a unique color combination on Lenox Museum Board
Together with a Pete Rose baseball card
Signed in pencil and inscribed TP 24/30
Also signed in pencil by Pete Rose
One of 30 trial proofs aside from the numbered edition of 50 plus 14 artist’s proofs

Bonhams New-York: 2 November 2021
Estimated: USD 28,000 – 35,000
USD 35,312