This is an ‘After’ Andy Warhol ‘Flowers’ by Sunday B. Morning circa 1970. This is one of the earliest examples of a Sunday B. Morning ‘Flowers’ screenprint. A lovely image that is stunning. An unsigned Warhol can cost $30K (last photo is of a print that sold at PHILLIPS for $25K 2018). A signed Warhol can go to $75-150K. As such, these Sunday B. Morning prints are the ‘poor man’s Warhol’ without sacrificing quality as these are from Warhol’s screens and were made with his initial permission.

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FRAMING: This rare print is encased in beveled 1/8” thick plexiglass. This is in the style of how it would be framed circa 1970. Sides have linen. The print lays on PH neutral paper and the plexi is UV protected. Due to this style of framing windows could not be made showing the stamps.

CONDITION: This screenprint is in good condition with a bend in the lower Left corner (facing back of print). The back of the print has aging (yellowing) due to aging. Publishers stamp in black ink on verso lower right: Sunday B. Morning 76/250. On verso lower left: fill in your own signature. This is an early black ink 1st edition of Sunday B. Morning mentioned in Feldman & Schellmann's Andy Warhol Prints: Catalogue Raisonné: 1962-1987.

Sunday B. Morning: The origin of the name “Sunday B. Morning” remains a mystery. It’s rumored that it was a consortium of dealers a French, German, and Belgian who distributed these to their respective countries/markets. Much is unknown of early Sunday B. Morning.

I quote this from research. “What is known is that after Andy Warhol published his famous “Factory Editions” of Marilyn, Flowers and Campbell’s Soup Cans, he began collaborating with two anonymous friends from Belgium in 1970 on a second series of prints. The original idea behind this partnership for Warhol was to play on the concept of mass production. Andy loved to comment on this phenomenon through his art. The black ink stamp “fill in your own signature” was inspired by mass production’s impact on modern culture. The thought was, ‘here we just mass-produced these prints; sign your name here. Any name will do. Because yours is as important as my own.’ These prints were exact in detail to the Factory Editions.

At some point, talks between Warhol and these Belgian friends began to fall apart. Warhol had a change of heart, but by this time, he had already handed over the photo negatives and the color codes used to produce the prints and the Belgians had already taken them to Belgium to begin printing. After the fact Warhol would and did sign them “This is not by me. Andy Warhol” to express his ironic dissatisfaction. This of course only made the prints more sought after, especially the ones he signed in defiance.

These early original Sunday B. Morning editions from the 70s are noted and recognized in Andy Warhol’s Raisonné “Andy Warhol: Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987” Book. The reference citation on page 173 reads: "This is an unauthorized print 36 x 36 or 91.4 cm in an edition of 250 with a stamped number. Stamped in black ink on verso "fill in your own signature" and published by Sunday B. Morning".

Today, the black ink Sunday B. Morning prints are very rare, as many did not survive the test of time. Sunday B. Morning began publishing the prints again, these prints are also stamped – now with blue ink – on the verso with “fill in your own signature” and “published by Sunday B. Morning”. These have no relation to what you now see and what I am selling. These to any trained/untrained eye are inferior in quality and all when compared to what I offer.