Andy Warhol hand signed, TIME magazine
ca 27x21cm

Paper magazine

Although Andy Warhol admired many of his portrait subjects from afar, it was his personal
relationship with Mick Jagger that culminated in Warhol’s iconic 10-print portfolio of Jagger’s
face in 1975. Depicting the rock star in a variety of poses, the portraits feature abstract swaths
of opaque color, sometimes obscuring the singer’s face, giving the prints a collage-like
appearance. Warhol and Jagger met in 1964, when the Rolling Stones were relatively unknown
in the United States. Their creative collaboration was solidified when Jagger asked Warhol to
design the album cover for Sticky Fingers (1971). Ever the provocateur, Warhol’s album cover
design featured the image of a man’s denim-clad crotch with an exposed zipper.

Andy Warhol, founder and leading figure of American Pop Art, was born in 1928 the son of a Russian family in Pennsylvania. He began his career as an artist creating advertising graphics. Already in 1956 he presented his graphic works at the Museum of Modern Art. In the early 1960s Warhol began experimenting with different techniques and began to focus on typically American consumer objects, such as Campbell's soup cans or Coca Cola bottles. In 1962 Warhol began with his series of portraits of famous stars, such as Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley, who were then at the peak of their careers. His renowned studio 'The Factory' has been a meeting point for internationally successful artists, actors and musicians. In the 1970s, galleries began to exhibit Warhol's work, which today is part of some of the most famous collections, such as the Modern Museum of Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the d'Art Moderne in Paris.