Female Portrait (Hermione Gingold)
A unique drawing by Andy Warhol
The cut-out portrait of British-born actress Hermione Gingold is one example of Warhol’s knowledge of and affinity for celebrities of his time. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has dated this drawing circa 1954. Around this time, Ms. Gingold was performing on Broadway alongside Harry Belafonte in the musical John Murray Anderson’s Almanac. [1]
Gingold was born in London in 1897. Over her illustrious career, she would star in over two-dozen films and about half as many television shows; she received the Golden Globe for her supporting role in the 1958 film Gigi. She died the same year as Andy Warhol, 1987.
Hermione Gingold is mentioned in the Andy Warhol Diaries as being at an Anti-Defamation League meeting also attended by Warhol on June, 1977. [2]
Circa 1954
Medium: Ink on paper
Size: 9.125 x 7.875 in (23.2 x 20 cm)
Frame size: 16.25 x 15.5 in (41.3 x 39.4 cm)
Provenance:
Estate of Andy Warhol (stamped)
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (stamped)
Long-Sharp Gallery
Authenticated by the Authentication Board of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (stamp on verso), Foundation archive number on verso in pencil, initialed by the person who entered the works into The Foundation archive.
[1] Pat Hackett, ed. The Andy Warhol Diaries. (New York: Grand Central, 1989), 47.
[2] Ibid.