Description
Commissioned in Göteborg, Sweden, for the home city of the Frölunda hockey club, Frölunda Hockey Player (FS II.366) captures Warhol’s late-period brilliance: a real-world figure translated into layered colour, crisp contour, and mass-media immediacy. The athlete’s features are deliberately flattened and coolly impersonal—while the uniform and insignia become the true subject, heightened by luminous, offset colour.
The composition thrives on contrast. A stark black field pushes the figure forward, while green and red outlines create a vibrating “after-image” effect that feels simultaneously mechanical and alive. Up close, the screenprint process reveals itself in the overlaps and separations of colour—exactly the kind of detail that rewards slow looking.
This print belongs to Warhol’s broader interest in celebrity culture beyond film and music—extending to athletes as icons. It’s a distinctive work within the late 1980s portfolio: bold, graphic, and instantly legible, yet surprisingly nuanced in its colour architecture.
Details
Artist: Andy Warhol
Title: Frölunda Hockey Player (F&S II.366)
Year: 1986
Medium/Technique: Screenprint in colours on Lenox Museum Board
Dimensions (unframed): 100.2 × 80 cm (H × W)
Dimensions (as presented): 101.5 × 81.2 cm (H × W)
Edition: 51/100 (edition of 100; also 20 AP and 5 PP recorded for the series)
Markings: Signed and numbered in pencil, lower left; blindstamp/embossed mark at lower left
Publisher/Printer: Printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York; commissioned by Art Now Gallery, Göteborg
Presentation/Framing: Museum-grade plexi box frame (as pictured)
Extra notes: Depicts Swedish player Christer Kellgren of Frölunda HC (as recorded for the series); conservator condition report available on request
Condition
Very good condition; a conservator condition report is available on request.
