Andy Warhol

unique large-format Polaroid Polacolor print, 1979

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

Boston University Art Gallery, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (a continuation of a portion of the original American Perspectives exhibition), November 2002 – January 2003

This print:

The Polaroid Book (Köln, 2008), p. 291

Constance Sullivan, ed., Legacy of Light (New York, 1987), p. 115

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), pl. 1

This unique large-format Polaroid print is in generally very good condition. The hues remain saturated although the print appears to have lightened slightly over time, as evidenced by a band of slightly darker coloring along the left edge of the image. Upon close examination, there are 3 small (the largest approximately ¼-inch) scratches or nicks to the emulsion in the lower right corner of the image. There is a slight waviness to the print, and a small soft linear handling crease in the lower right corner of the image. The bottom margin edge is unevenly trimmed, as is customary with large-format Polaroid prints.
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