Skulls N. II.157 from porfolio of four screenprints created in 1976. Each panel reproduces the same photographic image of a human skull resting on a flat surface and seen from a slightly raised point of view. The vivacity of the red, yellow, blue, and purple colours used here is at odds with their macabre subject matter.
Some art historians have have suggested that Warhol’s interest in the skull as a motif stemmed from his desire to evoke the human condition.