Collage by James Meller after Andy Warhol 'Most Wanted Men'. For the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London circa 1965.
By MELLER, JAMES. WARHOL, ANDY.
Card. 220x220. Collage by James Meller after Andy Warhol 'Most Wanted Men'; Al Capone. Mounted collage on card. James Meller was one of the 8 founding members of Foster Associates in 1967. He was also a graphic designer who worked extensively for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. While a student at Oxford he had a group show at the New Vision Gallery with Tim Wallis, George Coral and Raymond Wilson. Granta the Oxford student magazine had contributions by a number of the Independent Group and their associates, notably John McHale and Ryaner Banham. Warhol's large mural of 1964 was intended to hang on the outside of the Theaterama, a circular cinema 100 feet (30 m) in diameter. Intending to depict "something to do with New York", and taking inspiration from Marcel Duchamp's 1923 work Wanted, $2,000 Reward (in which Duchamp put his own photograph in a wanted poster), Warhol decided to print large-scale copies of images from a booklet published on 1 February 1962 by the New York Police Department, entitled "The Thirteen Most Wanted", showing 22 head-and-shoulder mug shots of the wanted men.
Published by: Institute of Contemporary Arts., 1965
Vendor: Roe and Moore
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By MELLER, JAMES. WARHOL, ANDY.
Card. 220x220. Collage by James Meller after Andy Warhol 'Most Wanted Men'; Al Capone. Mounted collage on card. James Meller was one of the 8 founding members of Foster Associates in 1967. He was also a graphic designer who worked extensively for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. While a student at Oxford he had a group show at the New Vision Gallery with Tim Wallis, George Coral and Raymond Wilson. Granta the Oxford student magazine had contributions by a number of the Independent Group and their associates, notably John McHale and Ryaner Banham. Warhol's large mural of 1964 was intended to hang on the outside of the Theaterama, a circular cinema 100 feet (30 m) in diameter. Intending to depict "something to do with New York", and taking inspiration from Marcel Duchamp's 1923 work Wanted, $2,000 Reward (in which Duchamp put his own photograph in a wanted poster), Warhol decided to print large-scale copies of images from a booklet published on 1 February 1962 by the New York Police Department, entitled "The Thirteen Most Wanted", showing 22 head-and-shoulder mug shots of the wanted men.
Published by: Institute of Contemporary Arts., 1965
Vendor: Roe and Moore
