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Liz

1964

Andy Warhol

(American, 1928–1987)
published by

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

Culture
America
Medium
color offset lithograph
Support
Wove paper
Measurements
Sheet: 58.7 x 58.7 cm (23 1/8 x 23 1/8 in.); Image: 55.8 x 55.8 cm (21 15/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Harvey and Penelope D. Buchanan 1998.409
Catalogue raisonné
Feldman & Schellmann (3rd ed., 1997, revised by Feldman & DeFendi) II.7
Edition
approx. 300
Copyright
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Several turbulent events in her personal life made actress Elizabeth Taylor a magnet for the tabloids and a favored subject for Andy Warhol. Like the painting Marilyn x 100 (on view in the adjoining gallery), the artist used a publicity photograph as his source. In this case, it was an image for Taylor’s 1960 film BUtterfield 8. Underlying Warhol’s signature style is an enlarged halftone dot. The dot ties the image to a photograph that has been mass-produced and adds another layer of distance from the individual whose likeness is being endlessly repeated and objectified.
A flat stylized and colorful square print depicts Elizabeth Taylor from the neck up. She has chin-length, voluminous and slightly wavy black hair and dark streaking eyelashes. The outline of her face is created in black ink. The background is inked red, her lips a reddish-pink, her face a pale pink, and her eyelids in teal. Light blue faintly rims her irises. All of these colors bleed slightly outside their edges.

Liz

1964

Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

(American, 1928–1987)
America

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