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Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1979 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. 25.4 x 25.4 cm. (10 x 10 in). Signed and dated ‘Andy Warhol 79' on the overlap and stamped with the Authentication Board Seal and numbered ‘A113.062' on the overlap.
Provenance Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London; Timothy Taylor gallery, London Exhibited Edingburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Andy Warhol Self-Portraits, 12 February – 2 May, 2005 Catalogue Essay Snipping and snapping photographs of friends and celebrities throughout his career, Warhol's own image never seemed to go unnoticed! From his 1960s' colourful silkscreens of Marilyn Monroe and blue paintings of Jacqueline Kennedy, to the 1970s' portraits of rock-star Mick Jagger and fellow artist Roy Lichtenstein Warhol never forget to artistically transform his own image into a work of art. Frontal, profile or deliberate pose, Warhol's visage has become his most famous attribute, elevating him from ‘factory artist' to celebrity, where his status and that of his subject matter have become increasingly equal in our minds, diminishing the boundaries between those portrayed and Warhol himself. His own image has become one of discussion and analysis, often begging the question if all self-portraits are inevitably staged and executed accordingly. In this early Self Portrait of 1967, Warhol has continued with the depiction of himself, having began exploring his own image in the early 60s. Coinciding with the photo-booth type headshots Warhol was working with at the time, this painting differs from his earlier over-confident, front-posing self portraits, infusing Warhol's depiction with a unique and somewhat innocent appearance. Moving away from his slightly ‘haughty' self-portrait of 1964 and his pensive gaze of 1966/67, this Self-Portrait, although executed in the same year as the previous one, is one of unawareness and naturalness, perhaps even the most ‘ordinary' out of the many self-portraits executed during his life. With his head slightly turned to the side and his eyes directed away from the lens of the camera, Warhol has recorded himself uncalculated and natural, visually capturing the essence of a ‘snapshot' – the ‘caught out of the blue' image that served as artistic fodder and serial template for this seminal series of colourful self-portraits. Read More Artist Bio Andy Warhol American • 1928 - 1987 A seminal figure in the Pop Art movement of the early 1960s, Andy Warhol's paintings and screenprints are iconic beyond the scope of Art History, having become universal signifiers of an age. An early career in commercial illustration led to Warhol's appropriation of imagery from American popular culture and insistent concern with the superficial wonder of permanent commodification that yielded a synthesis of word and image, of art and the everyday. Warhol's obsession with creating slick, seemingly mass-produced artworks led him towards the commercial technique of screenprinting, which allowed him to produce large editions of his painted subjects. The clean, mechanical surface and perfect registration of the screenprinting process afforded Warhol a revolutionary absence of authorship that was crucial to the Pop Art manifesto. View More Works