Francesco Scavullo

screenprint in colors on canvas, signed and dated in ink on the reverse, 1984

The collection of Sean Byrnes

The canvas is in generally excellent condition. It is stretched on wooden stretcher bars. There are two minor diagonal impressions extending from the side of the canvas and ending 1 1/2 in. into the image: one in the upper right corner and another at the left center of the canvas. There is an area of ink loss measuring 1/8 in. round along the lower right edge of the canvas. There are a few dark spots scattered throughout the image. There are some minor surface rubs near the edge of the canvas on all sides.
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The image of Brooke Shields used for this screenprint on canvas, printed by Warhol’s master printer Rupert Jasen Smith, is a slight variation on her February 1981 cover for Cosmopolitan magazine.  

"The camera loves her and she loves the camera. You can't take a bad picture of her... I photographed Brooke from age 7 months up to the Cosmopolitan cover in 1996." - Francesco Scavullo, Scavullo: Photographs, 50 years

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