Kachina Dolls
from Cowboys and Indians
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1986
Sheet: 36×36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Edition: 250
Artist’s Proofs: 50 AP
Printer’s Proofs: 15 PP
Hors Commerce: 15 HC
Other: 10 numbered in Roman numerals
Trial Proofs: 36 TP in unique color combination
(see Feldmann & Schellmann IIB.381)
Publisher: Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., New York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldmann & Schellmann II.381
All signed and numbered in pencil lower left
With the publisher’s blindstamp and the artist’s copyright inkstamp on the reverse
Kachina Dolls is part of Cowboys and Indians
(Click on picture below to access the Catalogue entry)
Produced by a Hopi Pueblo carver at an unknown date, Tumas kachina is one of three Indigenous peoples’ works referenced in Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians. Referencing a Polaroid taken at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in 1985, Warhol’s Kachina Dolls depicts Tumas (also known as Angwusnasomtaka and Crow Mother), a matriarch spirit in Hopi mythology.
Kachina Doll Polaroid by Andy Warhol, 1985
Kachina Dolls stands out within the Cowboys and Indians series as Warhol takes a more involved approach to interpreting his source material. Not only has he taken the reference Polaroid (as is also the case for Plains Indian Sheild and Northwest Coast Mask), but Warhol’s touch is perhaps most felt here as he chooses to duplicate the referenced kachina doll.
Auction Market Overview
Regular Editions
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and numbered 97/250 (there were also 50 artist’s proofs)
Wright: 3 April 2025
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 33,020
ANDY WARHOL (1928–1987)
Kachina Dolls (from the Cowboys and Indians series) (Feldman/Schellmann II.381), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered to lower left ‘97/250 Andy Warhol’ with publisher’s inkstamp to verso
SBI Art Auction: 26 October 2024
Estimated: JPY 2,500,000 – 3,500,000
JPY 2,990,000 / USD 19,531
ANDY WARHOL
Kachina Dolls, from Cowboys and Indians (F. & S. Ⅱ.381), 1986
Screenprint
Signed and numbered on the lower left, Copyright stamp on the reverse
From the edition of 250
LA Modern: 7 September 2023
Estimated: USD 35,000 – 45,000
USD 35,280
ANDY WARHOL (1928–1987)
Kachina Dolls (from the Cowboys and Indians series), 1986
Screen-print in colors
Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘97/250 Andy Warhol’
Sotheby’s New-York: 28 October 2022
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 40,320
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Kachina Dolls, from Cowboys and Indians, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil and inscribed PP 9/15
This impression is one of 15 printer’s proof aside from the numbered edition of 250 plus 50 artist’s proofs
Christie’s London: 28 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 20,000 – 30,000
GBP 41,100 / USD 47,730
AUCTION RECORD FOR KACHINA DOLLS (REGULAR EDITION)
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Kachina Dolls, from: Cowboys & Indians, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lennox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered 85/250
Hindman: 12 May 2022
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 25,000
USD 40,625
ANDY WARHOL (American, 1928-1987)
Kachina Dolls (from Cowboys and Indians), 1986
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered 209/250 in pencil
Dorotheum Vienna: 7 October 2021
Estimated: EUR 10,000
EUR 23,040 / USD 27,000
ANDY WARHOL (Pittsburgh 1928-1987 New York)
“Kachina Dolls”, 1986
Sheet 5 of the portfolio ‘Cowboys and Indians’
Silkscreen in color on Lenox Museum Board
Signed Andy Warhol
Copyright stamp on the reverse
No. 19 of 50 numbered artist’s proofs
Slightly trimmed and laid down on cardboard
Kachina Dolls (114/250)
Sotheby’s New-York: 26 October 2019
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 25,000
USD 18,750
Kachina Dolls (15/250)
Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2019
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 25,000
Kachina Dolls (101/250)
Christie’s New-York: 18 April 2019
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 21,250
Kachina Dolls (234/250)
Sotheby’s London: 27 March 2018
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 17,500 / USD 24,780
Kachina Dolls (54/250)
Doyle New-York: 1 November 2017
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 20,000
USD 25,000
Kachina Dolls (2/250)
LA Modern: 22 October 2017
Estimated: USD 12,000 – 15,000
USD 31,250
Kachina Dolls (171/250)
Phillips London: 7 June 2017
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 17,500 / USD 22,640
Trial Proofs
Kachina Dolls (TP 14/36), 1986
John Moran: 19 November 2019
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 35,000 (Hammer)
USD 43,750
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987 American)
“Kachina Dolls,” (from “Cowboys and Indians”), 1986
Unique color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Edition TP14/36
From the unique trial proof edition
Signed lower right: Andy Warhol
Kachina Dolls (TP 18/36), 1986
Christie’s London: 21 March 2019
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 36,250 / USD 47,585
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Kachina Dolls, from: Cowboys and Indians, 1986
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered TP 18/36
One of 36 trial proof impressions with unique color combinations
Kachina Dolls (TP 34/36), 1986
Phillips New-York: 26 October 2016
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 31,250
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL
Kachina Doll, from Cowboys and Indians, 1986
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered `TP 34/36′ in pencil
From the unique trial proof edition, the regular edition was 250 and 50 artist’s proofs
Kachina Dolls (TP 11/36), 1986
Sotheby’s London: 7 April 2009
Estimated: GBP 4,000 – 6,000
GBP 7,250
TRIAL PROOF
ANDY WARHOL
Cowboys and Indians: Kachina Dolls (F. & S. IIB.281)
Screenprint in a unique combination of colors
Signed in pencil and numbered TP 11/36
A trial proof aside from the numbered edition of 250