Mao
(F&S II. 89), 1973

set of 5 unique Mao prints from the edition of 300
from the New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio
Xerox print on typewriter paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches each
13 1/2 x 10 inches each framed
from the edition of 300, each unique
each signed & numbered in ball-point pen verso
each stamped in black verso "© Copyright 1973 Andy Warhol"
printed by Julie Martin, New York
published by Experiments in Art and Technology, New York
3 accompanied by a Whitney Museum label from Andy Warhol―From A to B and Back Again

Literature
Donna De Salvo, Andy Warhol―From A to B and Back Again, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018, 3 of these unique impressions reproduced pages 296-297

Frayda Feldman and Jorg Schellmann, Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987, Fourth Edition, D.A.P., New York, 2003,Catalogue Reference F&S II. 89; another impression reproduced in color page 80, additional impressions reproduced on page 164.

Museum Collections
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery , Washington, D.C.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Cornell University, New York
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Portland Art Museum, Portland
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Moderna Museet, Stockhom

Exhibitions
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, Nov 12, 2018–Mar 31, 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, three of these impressions.
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, May 19, 2019–Sep 2, 2019, San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, three of these impressions.
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, Oct 20, 2019–Jan 26, 2020, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, three of these impressions.

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Andy Warhol’s Mao Xerox Progressions (1973) are part of a limited edition series created in collaboration with Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), an organization dedicated to bridging contemporary art and technological experimentation. The series was included in The New York Collection for Stockholm, a significant portfolio of prints published to benefit Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Warhol’s contribution reflects his ongoing exploration of reproduction, mechanical processes, and the shifting relationship between image and mass media.

ANDY WARHOL MAO XEROX PROGRESSIONS

Andy Warhol’s Mao Xerox Progressions (1973) are part of a limited edition series created in collaboration with Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), an organization dedicated to bridging contemporary art and technological experimentation. The series was included in The New York Collection for Stockholm, a significant portfolio of prints published to benefit Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Warhol’s contribution reflects his ongoing exploration of reproduction, mechanical processes, and the shifting relationship between image and mass media.

Andy WarholMao's in Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

To create the edition, Warhol began with a drawn portrait of Mao Zedong, which served as the base image for the master print. He then produced a sequence of Xerox-based variations, each one slightly altered through repeated copying. With each iteration, the image was enlarged and elongated by approximately 1–2%, gradually moving from figurative representation toward abstraction.

This progressive distortion created a conceptual spectrum within the edition: lower-numbered impressions remain closer to the original Mao portrait, while higher-numbered prints become increasingly abstract and detached from the source image. The result is a systematic study in degradation, repetition, and mechanical transformation.

Andy Warhol Mao's in Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, published by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Select works from the Mao Xerox Progressions have been exhibited in major institutional exhibitions, including Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Works from the series were also illustrated in the exhibition catalogue (pp. 296–297), underscoring their importance within Warhol’s late print practice.

The Mao series is frequently discussed in relation to Warhol’s broader commentary on media, political iconography, and reproduction. It has also been referenced in contemporary cultural criticism, including discussions in Rolling Stone, which contextualized Warhol’s imagery within broader narratives of mass culture and visual repetition in: Why Mainstream Rock Sucked in 2018