What is the title of Andy Warhol’s 1962 painting featuring 200 one-dollar bills?

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Andy Warhol’s 1962 painting featuring 200 one-dollar bills is titled 200 One Dollar Bills.

The work is a silkscreen painting made during Warhol’s early Pop Art period, when he began turning familiar commercial and consumer images into subjects for fine art. Its repeated currency images reflect his interest in mechanical reproduction, mass circulation, and the visual power of ordinary printed objects.

200 One Dollar Bills is often discussed alongside Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca-Cola paintings. Those works used recognizable products, while this painting used money itself as a repeated visual motif. The subject is therefore both an image and a symbol of American consumer culture.

The title is sometimes shortened in casual references, but the full title identifies the number and denomination of the bills. It should not be confused with Warhol’s later paintings titled Dollar Sign, which feature a graphic currency symbol rather than repeated banknotes.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Sept. 2026

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