Andy Warhol of the Month
Long-Sharp Gallery specializes in works on paper and photography by Andy Warhol. Each month our staff selects a work from our inventory that highlights something about Warhol’s life or interests and discusses it here.
Self-Portrait in Fright Wig
Year: 1986
Medium: Unique polaroid print
Size: 4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.6 cm)
Frame Size: 11.375 x 9.125 in (28.8 x 23.1 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.
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About this work: Ahead of Andy Warhol’s exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery (NYC) in 1966, Warhol and Castelli collaborated to create an edition of three hundred offset lithographs of a Warhol self-portrait (FS.II.16). In 1967, Warhol screenprinted a series of unique self-portraits on colored graphic art paper (not an edition) (FS.III.A.1). Both projects, and all that would follow, began with a photograph (or a series of them) taken with Warhol’s Polaroid camera.
Warhol’s last self-portrait project took place at the end of his life. In collaboration with Anthony d’Offay, Warhol created his now-famous Fright Wig paintings. Like his other self-portraits, the works on canvas were preceded by a series of self-portraits taken with his Polaroid. Warhol died within twelve months of the opening of his show at d’Offay’s London gallery.
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Cited: Feldman, Frayda, and Jörg Schellmann. 1997. Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987. 3rd ed. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.