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Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga
Description
- Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga
- Set of Ten Screen Tests: Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Donovan Leitch, Francesco Scavullo, Salvidor Dalí, Marisa Berenson, Benedetta Barzini, Nico, International Velvet and Billy Name
each embossed Malanga/Warhol (Warhol is embossed only Malanga), each signed by Gerard Malanga, titled, dated 1964 (Warhol), 1965 (Sedgwick, Leitch, Scavullo, Dalí), 1966 (Berenson, Barzini, Nico, International Velvet, Name), numbered 2/10 (Warhol is numbered AP) and stamped Screen test by Malanga/Warhol
- gelatin silver prints laid down on foam core, in 9 parts; silver gelatin print (Andy Warhol)
- each: 19 3/4 by 15 1/2 in. 50 by 40 cm.
Provenance
Literature
George Malanga and Andy Warhol, Screen Tests: A Diary, New York, 1967, cat. no. 3 (Barzini), cat. no. 5 (Berenson), cat. no. 11 (Dalí), cat. no. 24 (International Velvet), cat. no. 38 (Nico), cat. no. 48 (Scavullo), cat. no. 49 (Sedgwick), n.p., illustrated (another example)
David Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, fig. no. 180 (Sedgwick), p. 198, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Kunsthalle (and traveling), Andy Warhol Photography, 1999, p. 116 (Sedgwick), illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Monaco, Grimaldi Forum, Super Warhol, 2003, p. 101 (Name), pp. 242-243, 245 (Sedgwick), p. 245 (Berenson), p. 246 (Malanga), p. 247 (Nico and Barzini), p. 249 (Dalí), illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles (and traveling), NadarWarhol:ParisNewYork, 1999, fig. no. 3, p. 136 (Sedgwick), illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, (and traveling), About Face: Andy Warhol Portraits, 1999, cat. no. 69.19 (Name), cat. no. 69.26 (Sedgwick), pp. 24-25, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Andy Warhol: Screen Tests, 2003, Gerard Malanga, n.p., illustrated (brochure)
Exh. Cat., Triennale di Milano, The Andy Warhol Show, 2004, fig. no. 22 (Dalí), fig. no. 25 (Sedgwick), fig. no. 27 (Nico), fig. no. 28 (Barzini) and fig. no. 29 (International Velvet), pp. 132-133, illustrated (another example)
Callie Angell, The Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I, New York, 2006, illustrated on the cover (Sedgwick), cat. no. ST17 (Barzini), cat. no. ST20, p. 35 (Berenson), cat. no. ST28, p. 40 (International Velvet), cat. no. ST67, p. 56 (Dalí), cat. no. ST38, p. 143 (Nico), cat. no. ST308, p. 179 (Sedgwick), cat. no. ST194, p. 116 (Name), cat. no. ST296, p. 175 (Scavullo), cat. no. ST349, p. 207 (Warhol)
Catalogue Note
In 1963, Andy Warhol purchased a 16mm camera and embarked on a five year experiment with filmmaking. Between 1964 and 1965, Warhol and George Malanga set out to expand the definition of portraiture by filming over 500 individuals in three to four minute black and white silent movies. Called Screen Tests, these movies were not just a directors tool for choosing actors for a film, but "we were creating what amounted to a photographic portrait, because the end result went through two stages, from a movie film to an inter-neg to an actual photograph on a peice of photographic paper." (Gerard Malanga in Andy Warhol Photography, New York, 1999, p. 118). Warhol asked his subjects to sit in a chair, motionless, facing a still camera, waiting until the 100 foot long roll of film passed through the camera. Their subjects ranged from artists such as Salvador Dalí, friends and Factory workers such as Billy Name, burgeoning 'Warhol Starlets' such as Edie Sedgwick and, of course, Andy Warhol himself. "Basically the sitter was confronting his or her self, the camera became a mirror, metaphorically speaking, anything could happen during the three minutes." (Ibid.). Warhol made famous the idea that everyone deserved their fifteen minutes of fame. And as directors of these 500 plus Screen Tests, Malange and Warhol have captured engaging and enduring images, powerfully and iconically Warholian.