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Andy Warhol’s Liz #5 (Early Colored Liz), 1963, sold for $26,962,500 at the Contemporary Art Par I sale, 12 May 2011, New York.To Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor epitomized everything that so fascinated him. She was shockingly beautiful and devastatingly alluring, yet her life was full of both tragedy and scandal. Most importantly, her face was one of the most famous in the world. Warhol’s enthrallment with her began in the late 1950s and would stay with him throughout his life. Of the various portraits he did of the Hollywood starlet, none is more rich and striking than Liz #5. In it Warhol perfectly captures the glamour, sex appeal and ravishing beauty that epitomized Elizabeth Taylor. Yet behind this stunning façade is a rich and varied history which lends the painting a depth only found in the best of Warhol’s work.In 1963, Elizabeth Taylor was at the height of her film career and Warhol at the height of his artistic creativity. Taylor was the highest paid actress in the world, internationally renowned for her unparalleled beauty. Warhol was the king of the New York art world, revolutionizing the status quo with his new style and technique. This legendary portrait was a groundbreaking masterpiece when it was painted then and today, with its rich history it becomes a timeless homage to two of the world’s most iconic figures. Elizabeth Taylor, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy would become Warhol’s most famous muses and lasting legacies.

Andy Warhol’s Liz #5 (Early Colored Liz), 1963, sold for $26,962,500 at the Contemporary Art Par I sale, 12 May 2011, New York.

To Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor epitomized everything that so fascinated him. She was shockingly beautiful and devastatingly alluring, yet her life was full of both tragedy and scandal. Most importantly, her face was one of the most famous in the world. Warhol’s enthrallment with her began in the late 1950s and would stay with him throughout his life. Of the various portraits he did of the Hollywood starlet, none is more rich and striking than Liz #5. In it Warhol perfectly captures the glamour, sex appeal and ravishing beauty that epitomized Elizabeth Taylor. Yet behind this stunning façade is a rich and varied history which lends the painting a depth only found in the best of Warhol’s work.

In 1963, Elizabeth Taylor was at the height of her film career and Warhol at the height of his artistic creativity. Taylor was the highest paid actress in the world, internationally renowned for her unparalleled beauty. Warhol was the king of the New York art world, revolutionizing the status quo with his new style and technique. This legendary portrait was a groundbreaking masterpiece when it was painted then and today, with its rich history it becomes a timeless homage to two of the world’s most iconic figures. Elizabeth Taylor, along with Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy would become Warhol’s most famous muses and lasting legacies.

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Snejana Onopka & Coco Rocha/W Magazine March 2007

Snejana Onopka & Coco Rocha/W Magazine March 2007

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basically… see, this is why this is my favorite movie.

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Valentino s/s 2012

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Tanya Dziahileva at Christian Dior resort 2011

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Issey Miyake s/s 2004

phillipsdepury:

Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964, sold for 8,146,500 at the Contemporary Art Part I sale, 12 May 2011, New York.

Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1964 was produced during what was arguably the most significant time period of the artist’s career. Though Warhol had already experienced a great deal of success with his images of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Liz, Marilyn and Elvis, the year 1964 saw his dramatic and meteoric rise to fame. To round off an outstanding season, Leo Castelli scheduled a Warhol show to take place at his gallery from November to December of that year featuring the artist’s new Flowers paintings. The source of the image Warhol appropriated for this series first appeared in the June 1964 issue of Modern Photography, a photograph of hibiscus blossoms illustrating an article about color processing. Following the show at Castelli Gallery, critic David Bourdon described Warhol’s Flowers as “…cut out gouaches by Matisse set adrift on Monet’s lily pond” (The Village Voice, December 3, 1964). The color scheme is also highly evocative of Van Gogh’s Irises.

Culling inspiration from a seemingly banal source, using a lithographic process, Warhol produced only two or three basic designs in a variety of color schemes, each in a square format. The artist found this format particularly satisfying because its regular shape allowed these paintings to be hung with any side up. As Warhol himself explained, “I like painting on a square…because you don’t have to decide whether it should be longerlonger or shorter-shorter or longer-shorter: it’s just a square” (D. Bourdon, Warhol, New York, 1989, p. 191).

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Her choice = clever, modern, apt.

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ruineshumaines:

Plate Paintings by Molly Hatch.