Sunset

Andy Warhol’s Sunset (1972) is a radiant exploration of color, repetition, and meditative stillness. Created as part of a commission for the Marquette Hotel in Minneapolis, the series comprises 632 unique screenprints—each featuring a circular sun motif rendered in vibrant, varied color combinations. Unlike Warhol’s celebrity portraits or commercial imagery, Sunset offers a rare contemplation of nature, distilled through the lens of pop minimalism. Warhol used photographic silkscreen techniques to reproduce a stylized sun against flat color fields, turning the natural event of sunset into a modular, mass-producible aesthetic object. The work reflects both the mechanized beauty of Warhol’s process and a quiet nod to the spiritual calm evoked by daily transitions. With its luminous palette and serene composition, Sunset invites reflection, standing as a testament to Warhol’s capacity to elevate the everyday into the iconic.