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Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Bald Eagle' 1992
Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Bald Eagle' 1992

Andy WarholAndy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Bald Eagle' 1992, 1992

$200Sale Price|20% Off

H 15.75 in W 14.5 in D 0.75 in

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Bald Eagle' 1992

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This features Endangered Species: Bald Eagle, a striking image from Andy Warhol’s celebrated

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1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Grevy's Zebra' 1992
Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Grevy's Zebra' 1992

Andy WarholAndy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Grevy's Zebra' 1992, 1992

$200Sale Price|20% Off

H 15.75 in W 14.5 in D 0.75 in

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Grevy's Zebra' 1992

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This features Endangered Species: Grevy's Zebra, an iconic image from Andy Warhol’s acclaimed

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1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

GREVY'S ZEBRA FS II.300
GREVY'S ZEBRA FS II.300

GREVY'S ZEBRA FS II.300

By Andy Warhol

Located in Aventura, FL

. From the Endangered Species portfolio, which premiered in 1983. Warhol was commissioned by

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

BALD EAGLE FS II.296
BALD EAGLE FS II.296

BALD EAGLE FS II.296

By Andy Warhol

Located in Aventura, FL

. From the Endangered Species portfolio, which premiered in 1983. Warhol was commissioned by

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

PINE BARRENS TREE FROG FS II.294
PINE BARRENS TREE FROG FS II.294

PINE BARRENS TREE FROG FS II.294

By Andy Warhol

Located in Aventura, FL

will be considered. From the Endangered Species portfolio, which premiered in 1983. Warhol was

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Screen

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Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species FS II.296

Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species FS II.296

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board 38 x 38 in. Edition of 150 Pencil signed and numbered

Category

20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger' 1992
Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger' 1992

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger' 1992

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This features Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger, a vivid and commanding image from Andy Warhol

Category

1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Orangutan from Endangered Species

Orangutan from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in London, GB

Screenprint in colours, 1983, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150 (total edition includes 30 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the blindstamp of the pri...

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1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

Siberian Tiger, from Endangered Species

Siberian Tiger, from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Andy Warhol Siberian Tiger, from Endangered Species 1983 Screenprint on

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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species

Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Andy Warhol Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species 1983 Screenprint on Lenox

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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species
Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species

Bald Eagle, from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Andy Warhol Title: Bald Eagle Portfolio: Endangered Species Medium: Screenprint on Lenox

Category

1980s Pop Art Portrait Prints

Materials

Screen

Bighorn Ram from Endangered Species

Bighorn Ram from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in London, GB

Screenprint in colours, 1983, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150 (total edition includes 30 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the blindstamp of the pri...

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1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

Grevy’s Zebra from Endangered Species

Grevy’s Zebra from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in London, GB

Screenprint in colours, 1983, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150 (total edition includes 30 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the blindstamp of the pri...

Category

1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

Giant Panda from Endangered Species

Giant Panda from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in London, GB

Screenprint in colours, 1983, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150 (total edition includes 30 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the blindstamp of the pri...

Category

1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

African Elephant from Endangered Species

African Elephant from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in London, GB

Screenprint in colours, 1983, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150 (total edition includes 30 artist's proofs), on Lenox Museum Board, with the blindstamp of the pri...

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1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

Big Horn Ram, from Endangered Species

Big Horn Ram, from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Andy Warhol Big Horn Ram, from Endangered Species 1983 Screenprint on Lenox

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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

ENDANGERED SPECIES: SIBERIAN TIGER FS II.297
ENDANGERED SPECIES: SIBERIAN TIGER FS II.297

ENDANGERED SPECIES: SIBERIAN TIGER FS II.297

By Andy Warhol

Located in Aventura, FL

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition EP of 5. From the Endangered Species Portfolio

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Board, Screen

ENDANGERED SPECIES: SIBERIAN TIGER FS II.297
ENDANGERED SPECIES: SIBERIAN TIGER FS II.297

ENDANGERED SPECIES: SIBERIAN TIGER FS II.297

By Andy Warhol

Located in Aventura, FL

Hand signed and numbered by the artist. Edition EP of 5. From the Endangered Species Portfolio

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Board, Screen

Andy Warhol, Siberian Tiger (1983)
Andy Warhol, Siberian Tiger (1983)

Andy Warhol, Siberian Tiger (1983)

By Andy Warhol

Located in New York, NY

'Endangered Species' portfolio. Warhol’s Siberian Tiger print exemplifies Warhol's signature style with layers

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1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Komodo Monitor, Vanishing Animals By Andy Warhol
Komodo Monitor, Vanishing Animals By Andy Warhol

Komodo Monitor, Vanishing Animals By Andy Warhol

By Andy Warhol

Located in New Orleans, LA

IUCN’s Red List since the 1980s, when Warhol created both his 1983 Endangered Species series and the

Category

20th Century Pop Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Synthetic, Paper, Polymer

Turtle
Turtle

Andy WarholTurtle, 1985

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H 31 in W 39 in

Turtle

By Andy Warhol

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

series, it was created two years following Andy Warhol’s famous and acclaimed Endangered Species

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1980s Pop Art Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger' 1992
Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger' 1992

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger' 1992

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This features Endangered Species: Siberian Tiger, a vivid and commanding image from Andy Warhol

Category

1990s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Siberian Tiger$17' 1999- Poster
Andy Warhol 'Endangered Siberian Tiger$17' 1999- Poster

Andy Warhol 'Endangered Siberian Tiger$17' 1999- Poster

By Andy Warhol

Located in Brooklyn, NY

, Germany. The artwork is part of Warhol's "Endangered Species" series, where he depicted endangered animals

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1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Bighorn Ram from Endangered Species
Bighorn Ram from Endangered Species

Bighorn Ram from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower center recto

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Black Rhinoceros, from Endangered Species

Black Rhinoceros, from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board Edition of 150 This piece is signed and numbered in pencil lower left.

Category

1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

African Elephant, from Endangered Species

African Elephant, from Endangered Species

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

Edition of 150 The exact medium of this piece is screenprint on Lenox Museum Board. This piece is signed and numbered in pencil lower right.

Category

1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

Orangutan, Endangered Species F&S II.299
Orangutan, Endangered Species F&S II.299

Orangutan, Endangered Species F&S II.299

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower right, blindstamp

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Orangutan, Endangered Species F&S IIB. 299
Orangutan, Endangered Species F&S IIB. 299

Orangutan, Endangered Species F&S IIB. 299

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

Unique Trial Proof, from the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296
Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296

Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower left. Printed by

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296
Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296

Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower left. Printed by

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296
Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296

Bald Eagle, Endangered Species F&S II.296

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower left. Printed by

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Grevy's Zebra, from Endangered Species F&S II.300
Grevy's Zebra, from Endangered Species F&S II.300

Grevy's Zebra, from Endangered Species F&S II.300

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower center. Printed by

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Grevy's Zebra, from Endangered Species F&S II.300
Grevy's Zebra, from Endangered Species F&S II.300

Grevy's Zebra, from Endangered Species F&S II.300

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower center recto

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Black Rhinoceros from Endangered Species F&S II.301

Black Rhinoceros from Endangered Species F&S II.301

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower left. Printed by

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Siberian Tiger from Endangered Species F&S II.297
Siberian Tiger from Endangered Species F&S II.297

Siberian Tiger from Endangered Species F&S II.297

By Andy Warhol

Located in Miami, FL

From the Endangered Species Portfolio. Hand signed and numbered in pencil lower left. Printed by

Category

1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Screen

Bighorn Ram (FS II.302)
Bighorn Ram (FS II.302)

Bighorn Ram (FS II.302)

By Andy Warhol

Located in West Hollywood, CA

. Warhol created his Endangered Species portfolio of ten, brightly colored screenprints in 1983. He was

Category

Late 20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Screen

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Warhol Endangered Species For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, there are several options of warhol endangered species available for sale. Finding the perfect Contemporary or Pop Art examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. Adding a colorful pieces of art to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — see the warhol endangered species on 1stDibs that include elements of black, brown, purple and more. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in screen print and board. If space is limited, there are small warhol endangered species measuring 38 across, while our inventory also includes pieces up to 38 inches across to better suit those in the market for large iterations.

How Much are Warhol Endangered Species?

Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — warhol endangered species in our inventory begin at $79,000 and can go as high as $210,000, while the average can fetch as much as $109,000.

Andy Warhol for sale on 1stDibs

The name of American artist Andy Warhol is all but synonymous with Pop art, the movement he helped shape in the 1960s. He was phenomenally prolific, and the archive of original photography, prints, drawings, paintings and other art that he left behind is beyond vast.

Andy Warhol is known for his clever appropriation of motifs and images from popular advertising and commercials, which he integrated into graphic, vibrant works that utilized mass-production technologies such as printmaking, photography and silkscreening. Later in his career, Warhol expanded his oeuvre to include other forms of media, founding Interview magazine and producing fashion shoots and films on-site at the Factory, his world-famous studio in New York.

Born and educated in in Pittsburgh, Warhol moved to New York City in 1949 and built a successful career as a commercial illustrator. Although he made whimsical drawings as a hobby during these years, his career as a fine artist began in the mid-1950s with ink-blot drawings and hand-drawn silkscreens. The 1955 lithograph You Can Lead a Shoe to Water illustrates how he incorporated in his artwork advertising styles and techniques, in this case shoe commercials.

As a child, Warhol was often sick and spent much of his time in bed, where he would make sketches and put together collections of movie-star photographs. He described this period as formative in terms of his skills and interests. Indeed, Warhol remained obsessed with celebrities throughout his career, often producing series devoted to a famous face or an object from the popular culture, such as Chairman Mao or Campbell’s tomato soup. The 1967 silkscreen Marilyn 25 embodies his love of bright color and famous subjects.

Warhol was a prominent cultural figure in New York during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. The Factory was a gathering place for the era’s celebrities, writers, drag queens and fellow artists, and collaboration was common. To this day, Warhol remains one of the most important artists of the 20th century and continues to exert influence on contemporary creators.

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Finding the Right Prints And Multiples for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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Questions About Andy Warhol
  • 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021
    Andy Warhol was a leading visual artist in the Pop art movement. He is known for his bright and colorful silkscreens, photography and more. Find a sprawling collection of Andy Warhol art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertOctober 30, 2024
    How much Andy Warhol's most famous painting is worth depends on which painting you believe is his best-known work. The name of the American artist is all but synonymous with Pop art, the movement he helped shape in the 1960s. He was phenomenally prolific, working in photography, prints, drawings, paintings and other art. A few of his pieces may be worthy of the title of “most famous.” In 2022, his acrylic and silk screen Shot Sage Blue Marilyn sold for $195.4 million at auction, and Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) fetched $105.1 million in 2013. Pieces from his well-known “Elvis” series have sold for $80 to $100 million at auction. On 1stDibs, find a diverse assortment of Andy Warhol art.