Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol's society portraits originated with his early sequential paintings of prominent art world figures and movie stars of the 1960s and 1970s where he used photo-booth snapshots as source material. In the present lot, Warhol features Sandy Brant, the wife of publishing magnate, Peter Brant, who ultimately took over the publication of Interview magazine, which Warhol founded in 1969. The use of the photo-booth snap-shot as source material simultaneously played to his love of seriality that he began exploring with his Soup-Can paintings, but also mimicked the glamour of the paparazzi photograph that he often turned to for his portraits of movie stars and prominent society figures.