Artist: Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987)
Title: Grace Jones
Work Type: Unpublished Prints
Work Date: c.1986
Size: 101.6 x 101.6 cms.
(40 x 40 ins.)
Materials: Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York
Catalogue: Feldman & Schelmann: IIIC.77b
Availability: Contact the gallery
Notes: Portraits (IIIC) documents a selection of prints that relate to paintings commissioned during the 1970s and 1980s. “[Warhol] was, in fact, the first artist for whom there was literally no difference between his work in painting and printmaking, except the material used to support the image; Andy used the same screens on canvas as he used on paper” (Henry Geldzahler, Andy Warhol Portraits, exh. Cat. [London: Anthony D’Offay Gallery, 1993], p.17). The subjects range from artists (Paul Jenkins, Robert Mapplethorpe, Georgia O’Keeffe) to atheletes (Dorothy Hamill, Kareem Abdul Jabaar) to entertainers (Judy Garland, Grace Jones) to fashion designers (Giorgio Armani, Carolina Herrera) to political figures (Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Joseph Kennedy III) and to writers (Truman Capote, Herman Hesse), among others. In addition, there is a selection of self portraits executed between 1967 and 1982. Although Warhol often took his own photographs of each subject, publicity stills were used for some portraits, such as Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Judy Garland. Certain subjects are not included in this subsection because they are either part of a series (Marilyn Monroe [Marilyn] [IIIA.3], Self Portrait [IIIA.10], and Mona Lisa [IIIA.13]) or part of an unpublished print commission (Eva Mudocci [IIIA.59], Madonna [IIIA.60], Self-Portrait with Skeleton’s Arm [III.62], and Sitting Bull [IIIA.70]). Portraits created on commission for commercial purposes, such as magazines, record covers,a nd books are also not included (e.g., Miguel Bosé [IIIB.19], Princess Caroline of Monaco [IIIB.20], and Council of Fashion Designers of America [CFDA] [111B.29-40], respectively).
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