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Andy Warhols Portrait of Debbie Harry, A Highlight of Sothebys Contemporary Art Sale |
| June 26th, 2011 01:35:29 am |
LONDON.- Selected as the cover image for the major survey of Warhol's portraiture published by Phaidon in 2005, Debbie Harry, from 1980, is one of Warhol's most accomplished portraits of celebrity. One of only four such portraits of the Blondie star in this rare 42 inches format, two of which are in the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, this pink version has become one of the best recognized images in Warhol's oeuvre and the definitive portrait of the 1980s style icon. Built up of no fewer than five silk-screened layers of ink over the coloured acrylic ground, this portrait stands head and shoulders above its peers as a masterclass in the genre. Painted at a late high point in Warhol's career, on the eve of the decade which saw a renewed creative enterprise in his art, Debbie Harry sits squarely in the lineage of great portraiture that links his images of the stellar trinity of Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy in the 1960s with his final fright-wig self portraits in |
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