Andy Warhol - Mick Jagger

Andy Warhol

Mick Jagger
1975

Colour screenprint on card. 111 x 73.7 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and numbered. Also signed by Mick Jagger. Proof 248/250 (+50 A.P. +3 P.P.). Edition Seabird Editions, London (stamp verso). - Minor traces of age.

Initially, Andy Warhol took recourse to photo material from the media as source material for his works. In the 1970s, however, he began to take photographs himself. With his polaroid camera, he took pictures of the stars of his time and used the individual, personally influenced photographs as a basis for his graphic work.
He had a close friendship with Mick Jagger since 1964 and designed the notorious Rolling Stones record cover “Sticky Fingers” in 1971. In 1975, Jagger and his bandmates rented Andy Warhol’s house on Long Island in preparation for their America tour. On this occasion, a series of photographs of the musician were created, showing him bare-chested in various poses. Warhol converted the photographs into colour serigraphs, which were published as a ten-part portfolio in the same year.
Warhol developed a design within the Jagger portraits that would be ground-breaking for his later work. He collaged torn coloured paper segments onto the photo template, replacing the thus covered areas by drawn lines whilst also emphasizing the photograph by retracing the outlines. The motif is alienated and emphasized in a multifaceted way and subjected to strong dynamics that let the viewer's gaze constantly wander. The Mick Jagger portraits, each signed by Warhol and Jagger, are a unique testimony to the collaboration between these two leading figures of pop culture.

Catalogue Raisonné

Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi, Andy Warhol Prints, A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, cat.rais. no.II.145

Provenance

American State of the Arts Gallery Exchange, New York (1978); private collection, Hamburg