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Introduction

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Famed for his depictions of branded consumer goods and 20th century celebrities, in Saint Apollonia Warhol appropriates his subject matter from a 15th century painting attributed to Piero della Francesca. Originally conceived as an altarpiece, della Francesca’s painting commemorates the ecclesiastical tale of Saint Apollonia, who was captured by the Alexandrians during a siege circa 248 AD. Tortured for her Christian beliefs, her teeth were extracted using the plyers she is depicted holding in both Warhol and della Francesca’s images. Threatened with being burnt at the stake unless she uttered blasphemous words against Christ, Apollonia made the ultimate sacrifice for her religious beliefs and threw herself into the fire.

Attributed to Piero della Francesca, Saint Apollonia, c. 1455/1460.
Image: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.19.

Warhol’s choice to lift his subject matter from a Renaissance masterpiece aligns with other artworks he was producing in the 1980s. His 1984 series Details of Renaissance Paintings took works by Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Paulo Uccello as their subject matter, transforming them for the modern day through using tightly cropped details and flat colors. In doing so, he likens the recognizability of these masterpieces to the prominence of celebrity images in modern society, exploring the idea of the icon across centuries. In Saint Apollonia, Warhol retains more of the source image’s original detail than in his other appropriations of Renaissance paintings. Rather than reducing the image of Apollonia to flat blocks of color, Warhol keeps the cracked effect of the tempera in della Francesca’s work. The image is not cropped drastically either, but simply reproduced as a commodity. By directly appropriating della Francesca’s imagery, Warhol challenges the concept of originality and commercializes the religious icon using his Pop Art aesthetic.

 

 

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Saint Apollonia, 1984

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Saint Apollonia

The complete set of four screenprints in colors
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Year: 1984
Sheet: 30×22 inches (76.1 x 55.9 cm)
Edition: 250
Artist’s Proofs: 35 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 8 PP
Trial Proofs: 80 individual TP not in portfolios, 20 individual TP not in portfolios numbered in Roman numerals
Publisher: Dr. Frank Braun, Dusseldorf
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.330-333

Signed and numbered in pencil, with the artist’s copyright inkstamp on the reverse

 

1. Saint Apollonia (F&S II.330)

2. Saint Apollonia (F&S II.331)

3. Saint Apollonia (F&S II.332)

4. Saint Apollonia (F&S II.333)

 

 

 

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2025 Auction Results

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Saint Apollonia (F&S II.331), 1984

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.330-333), 1984

Phillips London: 23 January 2025
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 38,100 / USD 47,055
COMPLETE SET

 

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2024 Auction Results

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Saint Apollonia (F&S II.330), 1984

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.330), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 215/250

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.330), 1984

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 7,620 / USD 9,625

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.331), 1984

Sotheby’s online: 20 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 9,525 / USD 12,097

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.331), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 196/250

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.331), 1984

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 7,620 / USD 9,625

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia (F. & S. 331), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Signed and numbered 21/250 in pencil (there were also 35 artist’s proofs)

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.332), 1984

Sotheby’s online: 20 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 8,890 / USD 11,290

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.332), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 198/250

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.332), 1984

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 6,985 / USD 8,823

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia (F. & S. 332), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Signed and numbered 21/250 in pencil (there were also 35 artist’s proofs)

Saint Apollonia (F&S II.333), 1984

Sotheby’s online: 20 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 9,525 / USD 12,097

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.333), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 198/250

 

 

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Saint Apollonia (F&S II.330)

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ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.330), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 215/250

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 7,620 / USD 9,625

Sotheby’s London: 26 September 2023
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 11,430 / USD 13,903

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.330), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 229/250

Rago Auctions: 15 February 2023
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 15,000
USD 12,500

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Saint Apollonia (F&S II.331)

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Sotheby’s online: 20 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 9,525 / USD 12,097

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.331), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 196/250

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 7,620 / USD 9,625

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia (F. & S. 331), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Signed and numbered 21/250 in pencil (there were also 35 artist’s proofs)

Sotheby’s London: 26 September 2023
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 11,430 / USD 13,903

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (F&S II.331), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 229/250

Karl & Faber: 30 June 2022
EUR 11,250

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.331), 1984
Screenprint in colors on cardboard
Signed lower left and numbered from the edition of 250

Rago Auctions: 30 March 2022
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 15,000
USD 32,500

Sotheby’s online: 20 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 7,000 – 10,000
GBP 8,890 / USD 11,290

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.332), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 198/250

Phillips London: 17 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 6,985 / USD 8,823

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia (F. & S. 332), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Signed and numbered 21/250 in pencil (there were also 35 artist’s proofs)

Sotheby’s London: 26 September 2023
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 20,320 / USD 24,717

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.332), 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper
Signed in pencil and numbered 229/250

Sotheby’s London: 15 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 4,000 – 6,000
GBP 20,320

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (F. & S. II.332), 1984
Screen-print in colors on Essex Offset Kid paper,
Signed in pencil, inscribed and numbered AP 26/35
An artist’s proof aside from the numbered edition of 250

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Saint Apollonia (F&S II.333)

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ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia (Feldman & Schellmann II.333), 1984
Screenprint in colors on cardboard
Signed lower left and numbered from the edition of 250

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Saint Apollonia (Trial Proofs)

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Sotheby’s New-York: 15 March 2023
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 18,000
USD 15,240

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Saint Apollonia, 1984
Screenprint in colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Signed in pencil Andy Warhol (retraced) and inscribed tp 68/80 (lower right)
One of 80 unique trial proofs aside from the numbered edition of 250 plus 35 artist’s proofs

Phillips London: 20 January 2022
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 20,160

Phillips London: 20 January 2022
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 18,900

Sotheby’s London: 26 March 2019
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 10,000

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia (see F. & S. II.B330-333), 1984
Screenprint in a unique combination of colors on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Signed in pencil, numbered tp 59/80 (a trial proof aside from the edition of 250)

Christie’s New-York: 21 April 2016
Estimated: USD 10,000 – 15,000
USD 10,625

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Saint Apollonia (See F. & S. II.330), 1984
Screenprint in colors on paper, a trial proof, presumably unique in this composition
Signed ‘Andy Warhol’ and numbered ‘TP 8/80’ in pencil (lower right)

 

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Complete Sets

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Phillips London: 23 January 2025
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 38,100 / USD 47,055

Van Ham Cologne: 29 November 2023
Estimated: EUR 20,000 – 30,000
EUR 46,200 / USD 50,320

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia, 1984
Four color silkscreens on Essex Offset Kid Finis
Each signed and numbered 7/250 with the artist’s copyright stamp

SBI Art Auction: 28 October 2023
Estimated: JPY 6,000,000 – 12,000,000
JPY 14,375,000 / USD 95,594

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia, 1984
The complete set of four color silkscreens on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
Each signed and numbered on the lower left with copyright stamp on reverse
An Artist’s Proof aside from the edition of 250

Phillips New-York: 20 April 2023
Estimated: USD 35,000 – 45,000
USD 50,800

Phillips London: 15 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 50,000
GBP 44,100

ANDY WARHOL
Saint Apollonia (F. & S. 330-333), 1984
The complete set of four screen-prints in colors, on Essex Offset Kid Finish paper
All signed and numbered 20/250 in pencil

Phillips London: 20 January 2022
Estimated: GBP 20,000 – 30,000
GBP 50,400

Phillips London: 24 January 2019
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 37,500