Andy Warhol | Camouflage (Pink) | Screenprint (1987)

Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
Camouflage (Pink), 1987
Screenprint in colours on Lenox Museum Board | Edition of 80

Camouflage (Pink) is one of eight screenprints from Warhol's final major print project, completed in the last weeks of his life. A work that transforms a pattern designed for concealment into something impossible to ignore.

Inspired by his assistant Jay Shriver, who had been working with military camouflage cloth, Warhol took a pattern designed to make soldiers invisible and did the opposite — rendering it in hot pink, crimson, and vibrant orange. The palette of Camouflage (Pink) makes any soldier instantly visible. In choosing these colours, Warhol exposes the entire logic of concealment as just another design choice — a surface, a style, a brand. The camouflage pattern, stripped of its military function and repainted in Pop colours, becomes exactly what Warhol always found most interesting: something useful that has been made purely decorative.

This is the last body of work Warhol completed. He died on 22 February 1987, weeks after the portfolio was finished. The edition is not hand-signed by Warhol — who died before the work was formally published — but is signed on verso by Frederick Hughes, executor of The Estate of Andy Warhol, whose signature serves as the authorised authentication of the work. It also carries the copyright inkstamp of the artist and the blindstamp of the printer, Rupert Jasen Smith. The complete Camouflage portfolio is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalogue raisonné: Feldman and Schellmann II.408.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot. Private viewings by appointment for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London. White-glove delivery and professional installation throughout the Home Counties and Central London.

Screenprint in colours on Lenox Museum Board
Sheet: 38 × 38 in (96.5 × 96.5 cm)
Framed: 41 × 41 in (104 × 104 cm)
Edition of 80, plus printer's proofs
Signed verso by Frederick Hughes, Estate of Andy Warhol
Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, 1987
F&S II.408
Creed Gallery Certificate of Authenticity