Andy Warhol

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Collection particulière, Etats-Unis
Vente: Christie's, Paris, Art d'Après-Guerre et Contemporain, 31 mai 2010, lot 24
Collection particulière, Paris

New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Andy Warhol, Portraits, 12 mai 2005 - 1er octobre 2005; catalogue, p.77, illustré en couleurs 

Warhol, Painting and Sculpture 1970-1974, The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné Volume 3, London, 2010, p.85, no.2135, illustré en couleurs

The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration although the overall tonality is slightly deeper in the original work. The work is on its original canvas and is not relined. Minor pinhead sized paint losses located at the extremity of each of the four corners are only visible under very close inspection. Under Ultra Violet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. This work is in excellent condition.
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Les photographies d'Andy Warhol du collectionneur d'art Sandra Brant, prises en 1969, font partie des premiers portraits faits par l'artiste au Polaroid. Ce portrait glamour de Sandy Brant est l'un des rares portraits bicolores, comme ceux de Dominique de Menil et de Dennis Hopper, conférant à ce portrait un look typique de la "Factory" des années 1960.

Contrairement à la majorité des séries de portraits de Warhol, ce portrait n'a pas été commandé, car il s'agit du portrait de l'une de ses amies.

Sandy Brant a été directrice de Interview Magazine (le magazine fondé par Warhol en 1969 avec John Wilcock) et est devenue ensuite l'une des principales rédactrices en chef de renommée internationale de Vanity Fair et de Vogue. Elle a été la première épouse de Peter Brant, un homme d'affaires de renom, entrepreneur et grand collectionneur d'art, qui a également été l'un des premiers inconditionnels d'Andy Warhol (c'est lui qui, avec Bruno Bischofberger, a commandé à Warhol la série Mao).

Warhol’s photographs of the art collector Sandra Brant, taken in 1969, are among  his earliest Polaroid portraits. This glamorous portrait of Sandy Brant is one of the few bicolour portraits, like ones made of Dominique de Menil and Dennis Hopper, giving this work a unique Factory 1960’s look.

Unlike the majority of Warhol’s portrait series, this work was not a commission, but the portrait of one of his friends.

Sandy Brant was the director of Interview Magazine (Warhol’s magazine founded in 1969 with John Wilcock) and later became a major international editor for Vanity Fair and Vogue. She was Peter Brant’s first wife, a renowned business man, entrepreneur and great art collector, who also was an early supporter of Andy Warhol (he and Bruno Bischofberger commissioned Warhol the Mao series).