Mother and Child
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.383)
Publisher: Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., New York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldmann & Schellmann II.383

All signed and numbered in pencil lower left
With the publisher’s blindstamp and the artist’s copyright inkstamp on the reverse

Mother and Child is part of Cowboys and Indians
(Click on picture below to access the Catalogue entry)

Mother and Child takes as its reference image a detail from a postcard published by Milwaukee’s E.C. Kropp Company. The mid-late nineteenth century brought with it both advancements in mechanized collotype printing and an expanding market for pictorial ephemera. Alongside images of recognizable landmarks, Native American imagery was a popular genre of these small prints.

With little mind to understanding, respect, or rigor, exoticizing postcards employed reductive stereotypes and racial epithets, depicting its subjects as the ‘noble savage.’ Warhol’s Mother and Child opts for a more respectful, less exotic title and a much tighter crop. The figures’ faces are emphasized, individualizing the mother and child depicted. Mother and Child, seems also to reference the religious imagery of the Madonna and Child—bringing a greater sense of reverence and art historical depth to his subjects as opposed to the original postcard depiction.

Auction Market Overview

Regular Editions

Christie’s online: 27 March 2025
Estimated: GBP 35,000 – 50,000
GBP 40,320 / USD 52,013
AUCTION RECORD FOR MOTHER AND CHILD

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Mother and Child, from: Cowboys and Indians (Feldman & Schellmann II.383), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered 214/250 (there were also fifty artist’s proofs)

Forum Auctions: 24 February 2023
Estimated: GBP 28,000 – 32,000
GBP 28,000 (Hammer)
GBP 36,735 / USD 44,145

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Mother and Child, from Cowboys and Indians (Feldman & Schellman II.383), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered from the edition of 250

Bonhams London: 29 June 2022
Estimated: GBP 18,000 – 25,000
GBP 35,580 / USD 43,365

Trial Proofs

Mother and Child (TP 27/36), 1986

Cowley Abbott: 28 November 2025
Estimated: CAD 40,000 – 60,000
CAD 60,000 (Hammer)
CAD 72,000 / USD 51,480
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Mother and Child (F&S IIB.383), 1986
from Cowboys and Indians 
Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered TP 27/36 lower left
Titled and numbered on a label on the reverse
Published by Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., New York

Mother and Child (TP 16/36), 1986

Phillips London: 19 September 2024
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 63,500 / USD 82,487
TRIAL PROOF

Mother and Child (TP 36/36), 1986

Artnet Auctions: 23 March 2023
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 93,750
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Mother and Child (from Cowboys and Indians), 1986
Screen-print in unique color variant on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and numbered in pencil
Trial Proof 36/36 aside from edition of 250

Mother and Child (TP 6/36), 1986

Christie’s London: 15 September 2010
Estimated: GBP 10,000 – 15,000
GBP 13,750

ANDY WARHOL
Mother and Child, from: Cowboys and Indians (F. & S. IIB.383), 1986
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered ‘TP 6/36’
A trial proof (each a unique color variant) aside from the published edition of 250