Andy Warhol

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner

Impulse Archaeology, White Box, New York, 2007

Impulse Archaeology, MOCCA, Toronto, 2005

Impulse magazine, Volume 7, Number 4, Summer 1979

On the late afternoon of February 21, 1979, Eldon Garnet the editor of Impulse magazine visited the Factory. He interviewed Andy Warhol. The Tie was given as a gift to Garnet during an interview.

The Tie is a unique work. A little known part of Warhol’s oeuvre. A painting as a wearable object. As Blake Gopnik, author of Warhol, puts it: “It’s a new story… Warhol’s plans to sell cut-offs from his paintings as neckties. (Yet another example of Business Art that would have been certain to be bad as business.)”

According to Richard Dupont, a regular at the Factory who was present during Garnet’s interview: “I remember Henry Geldzahler had one along with a few friends of Andy’s and the two ladies at Fiorucci in NYC that were going to sell the Ties. But you may be the only other person who received one. Maybe the only person who still has one.”