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Flat, stylized, and colorful print of 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. Pale blue faintly rims her irises. All of these colors bleed slightly outside their edges.

Liz

1964

Andy Warhol

(American, 1928–1987)
published by

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

America
color offset lithograph
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.)
Gift of Harvey and Penelope D. Buchanan 1998.409
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Feldman & Schellmann (3rd ed., 1997, revised by Feldman & DeFendi) II.7
Location: Not on view

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.
  • Cole, Mark, "A Paramount Picture", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 01, January 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9 archive.org
    Levy, Benjamin. “Photographs in Ink: The wonder of photomechanical processes.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 62, no. 3 (September 2022): 14-15. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 14.
  • Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Liz|url=false|author=Andy Warhol, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York|year=1964|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.409