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Warhol Reigning Queens complete portfolio. Nine images of the four queens from the series.
Four prints from Warhol's Reigning Queens complete portfolio.
Screenprint of Queen Margrethe by Andy Warhol in frame.
A man taking a picture of four prints from Andy Warhol's Reigning Queens series.
Prints from Andy Warhol's Reigning Queens Complete Portfolio hanging on the wall.
Screenprints of Andy Warhol's Reigning Queens series at Andy Warhol Revisited.
Size comparison image for the Queen Elizabeth 355 print by Andy Warhol.

Reigning Queens Complete Portfolio

Catalogue Title: Reigning Queens Complete Portfolio (FS II.334-349)

Year: 1985

Size: 39 3/8″ x 31 1/2″ Each

Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board

Edition: Portfolio of 16. Edition of 40, 10 AP, 5 PP, 3 HC, 30 TP containing only one image of each queen, signed and numbered in pencil. There is also a Royal Edition of 30, 5 AP, 2PP, and 2 HC, sprinkled with diamond dust.

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Andy Warhol’s Reigning Queens complete portfolio includes portraits of four figures: Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands and Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland. Warhol depicts these four female monarchs in their own right, as powerful matriarchs, rather than as women who were married to a king. Warhol also did another series, Reigning Queens (Royal Edition), in which the images were accented with diamond dust

In addition to his obvious love of celebrity in the traditional sense, Warhol was obsessed with political leaders as well. In addition to the Reigning Queens series, Warhol produced images of figures such as John F. Kennedy, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong

Reigning Queens as Part of Andy Warhol’s Larger Body of Work

 

Andy Warhol created the Reigning Queens complete portfolio during the mid-1980s, in the last years of his life and arguably most prolific period. During this time, Warhol was forming bonds with a number of younger artists in the New York art scene including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel and David Salle. Warhol saw a re-emergence of recognition during this period of his life, in which he focused on different forms of celebrity. In this case, that included four powerful rulers that he felt personified his interest in fame. The Reigning Queens complete portfolio includes FS II.334-349.

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