Andy Warhol - Space Fruit (Full Suite) jpg
Space Fruit Watermelon by Andy Warhol
Space Fruit Peaches by Andy Warhol
Space Fruit Pears by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol Space Fruit: Apples 200 screenprint stock photo.
Andy Warhol Space fruit cantalopes
Space Fruit Cantaloupes II by Andy Warhol
The Space Fruit Pears screen print by Andy Warhol out of the frame.
The Space Fruit: Peaches screen print by Andy Warhol out of frame
Andy Warhol - Space Fruits: Cantaloupes F.S. II 198 sig blur jpg
Size comparison image showing the size of the Space Fruit Complete Portfolio relative to the height of Warhol and Edie Sedgwick.

Space Fruit Complete Portfolio

Catalog Title: Space Fruit Complete Portfolio (FS II.198-203)
Year: 1979
Size: 30" x 40" Each
Medium: Screenprint on Strathmore Bristol Paper
Edition: Portfolio of 6. Edition of 150, 1 PP on Strathmore Bristol Paper signed and numbered in felt pen. 30 on 4-ply Lenox Museum Board numbered in Roman numerals, signed and numbered in felt pen.
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The Space Fruit Complete Portfolio epitomizes Andy Warhol’s modern approach to the still life genre. With bright and unrealistic colors, Warhol demonstrates more interest in the drawing’s outline and color than its level of realism. With the help of his close friend and printer, Rupert Jasen Smith, Warhol was able to complete his Space Fruit suite in 1979.

This series marks a shift of Warhol’s interest from commercial products to more typical subjects, namely everyday objects that are representative of the still life genre. The Space Fruit Complete Portfolio is a staple of Warhol’s work, with a total of eight prints, each presenting an original view of a common object. Warhol’s passion for vibrant colors and exaggerated shadows presents his subjects in a new light, creating idols out of them as he does with the more famous subjects of his other suites.

Warhol takes the same approach to his Space Fruit series as he does to his Flowers and Skulls series, taking traditional props and isolating each element in some of his most famous portfolios. The Space Fruit Complete Portfolio includes FS II.196-203.

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