Andy Warhol

Connecticut Fine Arts, Westport, Connecticut
Acquired by the previous owner from the above in 1980

Georg Frei, Neil Printz & Sally King-Nero, Eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 02B, Cat Nos 1938-1980 (several other versions illustrated)

In good condition aside from surface dirt and scattered light brown splotches. Small area of loss upper left corner at edge and rubbing at corners with paint loss. Faint black lines at left, right and bottom edges possibly from screenprint process. Small accretion left center edge possibly also from artist's process. Lighter rubbing at al edges. Under UV, no signs of inpainting but surface dirt flouresces.
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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.

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.