Title: Camouflage 413
Medium: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1987
Size: 38” x 38”
Details: Edition of 80, signed and numbered in pencil on verso by the executor of The Estate of Andy Warhol and stamped with a certificate of authenticity.
Andy Warhol created Camouflage 413 for his final portfolio of screenprints produced before his death in 1987. Warhol put a pop art twist on the recognizable pattern used for American military uniforms with his trademark vibrant colors. For Camouflage 413, Warhol printed the familiar pattern in bold shades of orange, yellow, and light blue contradictory to its title. Andy’s Camouflage prints are widely considered to be among his most abstract and visually striking works of pop art. He worked closely with his assistant Jay Shriver to produce the images, which were inspired by forms and motifs of military clothing procured by Shriver from an army surplus shop in New York. By replacing the muted palette of camouflage clothing with bright and fluorescent colors that were popular in the 1980s, Warhol appropriated and transformed this military theme into pop art. Camouflage 413 is from a small edition of 80, and is stamped and signed by Fredrick Hughes, the executor of the Warhol estate, as they were released after Andy Warhol’s death.
