Geronimo
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.384)
Publisher: Gaultney, Klineman Art, Inc., New York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Feldmann & Schellmann II.384

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

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

Geronimo (Goyaałé), like General Custer, is an immense figure in the mythos of the American Indian Wars.

Portrait of Geronimo by A.F. Randall, c.1886
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

He first rose to public notoriety as a leader of Apache Chihuahua raids in the southwest. Warhol’s portrait is based on a photograph taken by A.F. Randall. In the original portrait, Geronimo is pictured with a rifle, surrounded by bits of southwestern brush.

Yet in truth, Randall’s photo depicts Geronimo the prisoner, soon after his 1886 surrender. In the remaining years of his life, he would remain a prisoner of war, habitually making appearances as a public attraction: the 1904 World’s Fair, Teddy Roosevelt’s 1905 inaugural parade, and in wild west shows. Warhol’s Geronimo (as with Mother and Child) finally grants his subject the courtesy of a neutral background free of faux set pieces—a courtesy afforded to Wayne, Oakley, Custer, and Roosevelt by their respective original portraitists. There is a greater dignity afforded to Geronimo in Warhol’s print, plucking his subject from the condescending, staged setting of the original photograph as a prisoner of war.

Auction Market Overview

Regular Editions

Rago: 12 October 2023
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 30,000
USD 44,100

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Geronimo, from: Cowboys and Indians, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered 238/250

Geronimo (236/250)
Phillips New-York: 25 October 2019
Estimated: USD 18,000 – 25,000
USD 40,000

Geronimo (AP 10/50)
Sotheby’s London: 26 March 2019
Estimated: GBP 15,000 – 20,000
GBP 22,500 / USD 29,720

Geronimo (76/250)
Christie’s New-York: 27 February 2019
Estimated: USD 18,000 – 25,000
USD 25,000

Geronimo (21/250)
Swann Auction Galleries: 11 May 2017
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 30,000

Geronimo (75/250)
Bonhams Los Angeles: 18 October 2016
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 31,250

Geronimo (73/250)
Christie’s New-York: 27 April 2016
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 30,000
USD 32,500

Geronimo (TP 3/36), 1986

Phillips New-York: 21 October 2025
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 36,120
TRIAL PROOF

Geronimo (TP 3/36), 1986

Phillips New-York: 16 April 2025
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
TRIAL PROOF
PASSED

Geronimo (TP 24/36), 1986

Sotheby’s online: 26 March 2025
Estimated: GBP 40,000 – 60,000
GBP 88,900 / USD 114,681
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL (1928 – 1987)
Geronimo, from Cowboys and Indians (see Feldman & Schellmann II.384), 1986
Screenprint in a unique color combination on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, inscribed and numbered TP 24/36
Number 24 from the edition of 36 trial proofs printed in unique colorways
Aside from the edition of 250 plus 50 artist’s proofs

Geronimo (TP 3/36), 1986

Christie’s New-York: 16 April 2024
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 75,600
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Geronimo, from Cowboys and Indians (Feldman & Schellmann II.384), 1986
Unique screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, numbered ‘TP 3⁄36 ‘
A unique trial proof, the edition was 250 plus 50 artist’s proofs

Geronimo (TP 14/36), 1986

Heritage Auctions: 19 April 2022
Estimated: USD 20,000 – 40,000
USD 71,875
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Geronimo, from Cowboys and Indians, 1986
Signed and numbered TP 14/36  in pencil lower left
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
A Trial Proof aside from the edition of 250

Geronimo (TP 6/36), 1986

Sotheby’s New-York: 28 October 2016
Estimated: USD 25,000 – 35,000
USD 40,000
TRIAL PROOF

Geronimo (TP 31/36), 1986

Sotheby’s London: 30 March 2011
Estimated: GBP 5,000 – 7,000
GBP 11,000 / USD 17,655
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Cowboys and Indians: Geronimo (F. & S. II.384), 1986
Screenprint in a unique combination of colors
Signed in pencil, inscribed TP 31/36 (a trial proof aside from the edition of 250)

Geronimo (TP 25/36), 1986

Phillips New-York: 20 November 2010
Estimated: USD 15,000 – 25,000
USD 17,500
TRIAL PROOF

ANDY WARHOL
Cowboys and Indians: Geronimo, 1986
Unique screenprint in colors on heavy wove paper
Signed in pencil, inscribed TP 25/36