- Andy Warhol 1928-1987
- Frank Stella
- 1967
- Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
- 8 x 8 inches (20.32 by 20.32 cm.)
- Signed and dated 1967 verso
- Executed in 1967, this work is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. and numbered A103.076 on the reverse.
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Acquired by the previous owner from the above in 1980
Literature
Georg Frei, Neil Printz & Sally King-Nero, Eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 02B, Cat Nos 1938-1980 (several other versions illustrated)
The Leo Castelli Gallery celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1967 with an exhibition chronicling, in photographs, the gallery's past exhibitions; works by artists in the stable; and a display of portraits by Andy Warhol of these artists. The portraits were based on photographs provided to Warhol by Castelli; he cropped and adjusted these source images according to his practice. There were twelve subjects in all, including Warhol; the portraits were hung together and were both Warhol's contribution to the exhibition and a formal display of portraits of the gallery's artists.
The portraits were on small unframed canvases, of different sizes and shapes, artfully arranged. In character with the artist's style, the arrangement included twinned portraits of some artists: there were two of Frank Stella, side by side, closer to each other than to the adjacent canvases of other artists.
Collectively or individually, works from this suite are also known as the Castelli Portraits, or simply Portraits of Artists.