Andy Warhol - Chanel Screen Print (FS II.354)

Original Chanel Print by Andy Warhol

Chanel 345 is a screenprint by Andy Warhol created in 1985. The work depicts a bottle of Chanel perfume, and belongs to the artist’s Ads series, which features pop art renditions of popular advertisements of the 1980s.

A screen print born in 1985, Chanel 354 takes its regal seat in Andy Warhol’s Ads portfolio composed of 10 screen prints. The Chanel 354 is as rare as it is fabulous with only 190 edition prints of the perfume created. Reckoning back to his beginnings as an advertisement artist fresh out of college, Chanel 354’s lustrous bottle holds an irresistible feminine energy and appears to a buyer’s desire to acquire beautiful items and the aura of affluence. Chanel 354 is a testament to the fascination with attainable glamour that was a staple of Warhol’s “American Dream” philosophy depicted in his style that gained widespread commercial success from the appropriation of culturally prominent images and products.