Double Mickey Mouse

Year: 1981
Medium: Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper
Sheet: 30.5 x 43 inches (77.5 x 109.2 cm)
Edition: 25
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Publisher: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New-York
Literature: Feldman & Schellmann II.269

Signed and numbered in pencil on verso
Each print is unique, some have diamond dust

 

Consistently, Warhol mentioned Walt Disney as the artist he most admired and the earliest artist to influence him. In light of this fact, it seems obvious that Warhol would turn to one of his earliest influences during the last decade of his life. As an image, Mickey Mouse not only suited his pictorial means but was also laden with meaning: there is perhaps no bigger emblem of popular culture itself than Mickey Mouse.

By the time Warhol created Double Mickey Mouse, the Disney brand was nearly sixty years old and a global entertainment phenomenon, first appearing to major audiences in the black-and-white “talkie” Steam Boat Willie in 1928. Almost immediately, the Mickey Mouse character spread around the globe, making him the most recognizable cartoon character in history and—perhaps more importantly—a symbol of American innovation and spirit.
The similarities between Warhol’s factory and Disney’s production studios have been oft-cited, but it is each artist’s iconic dominance of the globe—both culturally and commercially—as well as their enduring appeal that most closely links them. Traveling the world, nearly everyone recognizes “Mickey” or a “Warhol” so that the images themselves transform from mere depiction to something larger and more symbolic, achieving icon status.

 

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Auction Results

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Phillips New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 500,000 – 700,000
USD 635,000

Christie’s New-York: 25 October 2024
Estimated: USD 500,000 – 700,000
USD 630,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Double Mickey Mouse (Feldman & Schellmann II.269), 1981
Unique screenprint in colors with diamond dust on Arches paper
Signed in pencil on the reverse
Numbered 16⁄25 (from the edition of 25 unique color versions)

Christie’s New-York: 17 November 2022
Estimated: USD 300,000 – 500,000
USD 567,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Double Mickey Mouse, 1981
Unique screen-print in colors with diamond dust on paper
30 1/2 x 43 inches (77.5 x 109.2 cm)
Signed and stamped with the artist’s and publisher’s copyright ink stamp ‘Andy Warhol’
(on the reverse)
This work is number 15 from an edition of 25 unique color versions

Christie’s New-York: 27 October 2022
Estimated: USD 300,000 – 500,000
USD 819,000
AUCTION RECORD FOR DOUBLE MICKEY MOUSE

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Double Mickey Mouse, 1981
Unique screen-print in colors with diamond dust
Signed in pencil on the reverse
Numbered 8/25 (from the edition of 25 unique color versions)

Christie’s New-York: 23 October 2019
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 615,000

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Double Mickey Mouse, 1981
Unique screenprint in colors with diamond dust on Arches 88 paper
Signed in pencil on the reverse, numbered 12/25 (from the edition of 25 unique color versions)

Christie’s New-York: 3 November 2004
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 101,575

ANDY WARHOL
Double Mickey Mouse (F. & S. A269), 1981
Unique screenprint in colors with diamond dust on Arches 88
Signed in pencil on the reverse, numbered 16/25 (there were no artist’s proofs)