ANDY WARHOL Kiku

ARTIST:
ANDY WARHOL

TITLE:
Kiku

MEDIUM:
Screenprint on Rives BFK paper.

YEAR:
1983

SIZE:
19.625" x 26"

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EDITION
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Edition of 300, 30 AP, 3 PP, 5 EP, 18 HC, signed and numbered in pencil lower left.

Kuki: Chrysanthemums were cultivated in China as a flowering herb as far back as the 15th century BC. An ancient Chinese city was named Ju-Xian, meaning "chrysanthemum city". The flower was introduced into Japan probably in the 8th century AD, and the Emperor adopted the flower as his official seal. The chrysanthemum (菊 kiku in Japanese) is the monshō ("badge" or "crest") of the emperor of Japan, and therefore the flower represents the emperor and Imperial House. The term kikukamonshō literally means the "Chrysanthemum Crest" (Imperial Seal).  There is a "Festival of Happiness" in Japan that celebrates the flower.  The flower was brought to Europe in the 17th century. Linnaeus named it from the Greek prefix chrys-, which means golden (the colour of the original flowers), and -anthemon, meaning flower. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysanthemum#Cultural_significance_and_symbolism)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Portfolio of three screenprints. Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York; Ryoichi Ishida, Tokyo, Japan Publisher: Gendai Hanga Center, Tokyo, Japan

© 2008 Gallery Warhol. All artwork is © 1987-2008 The ANDY WARHOL Foundation for the Visual Arts.