Andy Warhol Social Network

ANDY WARHOL SOCIAL NETWORK

Andy Warhol’s studio, the Factory, was famously a place where art was mass produced. However, it was also a destination where talented, influential, and curious people from all walks of society arrived not so much to see Warhol, but to see each other. Through this dynamic social potpourri, Warhol challenged established norms and expanded our imagination of what a social network could be. While our current polarized moment of pervasive social media operates as an echo chamber and a constant reminder of what we missed, Warhol welcomed a diversity of thought and real human connections. As the designated steward of his legacy, The Andy Warhol Foundation nurtures these values through its grantmaking which advances the visual arts and promotes new voices, new ideas, and new creations.

This sale highlights the importance of photography as a medium for Warhol, especially in documenting the people around him. Warhol explained, “a picture means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.” Warhol’s photographic legacy has become an important part of scholarship and exhibitions resulting in a better understanding of the enigmatic tapestry of Warhol’s creative output. As The New York Times reported, photography was the “architecture of his oeuvre.”

Andy Warhol: Social Network celebrates the idea of interconnection through the variety of individuals in these photographs, the accessibility of the global sales platform, and by contributing revenue to The Andy Warhol Foundation, which has distributed nearly $280M in cash grants to support a diverse range of artistic practices over the past 35 years. This curated sale from The Warhol Foundation’s collection highlights dozens of notable subjects including Jean Michel Basquiat, Mick Jagger, Debbie Harry, Diane von Furstenberg, and Candy Darling, among many others. From these figures to Lee Radziwill, Marsha P. Johnson, and Ozzy Osbourne, Warhol’s social network was a unique jumble. He was a sponge, eagerly soaking up and obsessively documenting the world around him.

Warhol’s live and let live attitude revealed a radical curiosity and open mindedness that allowed him to explore the complexities of the world, that was ultimately reflected in his work. He recognized that to grow and thrive, one must engage with other people, such as the subjects of Andy Warhol: Social Network, who have notably different perspectives and lived experiences. Andy Warhol’s gift to the world is not only the inspiring, timeless art he left behind but also the permission he still gives us to take risks, forge our own paths and form our own networks in order to become truer versions of ourselves.

Michael Dayton Hermann The Andy Warhol Foundation New York City, 2023

“I feel I’m very much a part of my times, of my culture, as much a part of it as rockets and television.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Self-Portrait, 1977

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 16,000 USD

Debbie Harry, 1980

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 8,000 USD

Debbie Harry (b. 1945): Debbie Harry is an American musician and punk rock icon, best known as the lead singer of the band Blondie. Harry moved to New York in the late 60s and quickly became part of the downtown party scene, working at Max’s Kansas City before beginning her singing career. In 1974, she and guitarist Chris Stein founded Blondie, achieving international success with six studio albums and numerous hit singles. Harry started a solo career in 1981 and Blondie eventually re-formed in 1997. Harry was a vibrant part of Warhol’s social orbit and has impacted Pop culture as much as she has punk.

Tuesday, August 12, 1980

At 12: 00 I had an appointment to meet Debbie Harry at the office (cab $ 4). I was early and Debbie and Chris [Stein] were on time. We worked all afternoon. Debbie was sweet, every picture came out perfect.

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

“Andy Warhol was a great artist, a magnetic and kindred spirit, and an influence on me. He collected people and objects. Andy was like a performer through whom things pass and to whom they return. He was not a cold and abstract person, but a truly passionate one. Andy made the act of creating Art into an art.”

– DEBBIE HARRY

“My favorite writer is Truman Capote. I love the way he writes; I love the way he lives.”

“I met Truman Capote through his mother years ago. Truman Capote was just a little bit older than me, but a lot more famous. I wrote him fan letters from Pittsburgh and when I moved to New York I tried to meet him. I did some drawings for Other Voices, Other Rooms and called up Truman and asked if he wanted to see them. Truman wasn’t interested. But his mother was. [...]

Truman invited me to his Black and White Ball in the sixties. I guess we were friends then. But I really started seeing Truman a lot when Rolling Stone asked me to interview him. They had assigned Truman to write a piece about the 1974 Rolling Stones tour but Truman was too bored to do it. So Jann Wenner, the editor of Rolling Stone, thought I could just tape-record Truman talking about the tour. Truman hated my tape recorder. [...] Truman and I can really work together. He doesn’t like to talk about his work. He just does it. He’s not an intellectual. But he’s smart.

Truman is writing a column for Interview now called “Conversations with Capote.”

I gave him a tape recorder. –

Truman Capote, 1977

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 8,000 USD

Truman Capote (1924–1984): Iconic American writer and socialite, Truman Capote fascinated Warhol from an early age and the two eventually became friends and confidantes who collaborated and gossiped together for decades. Capote, perhaps best known for his “nonfiction novel” In Cold Blood, was an eccentric character obsessed with celebrity and glamor who pushed social and literary boundaries throughout his life.

After the Party,

1979

Screenprint on Arches paper, 21 ½ x 30 ½ inches

Starting at 24,000 USD

Warhol originally captured this scene with his point-and-shoot camera, likely after one of several parties he often attended in a single evening. He electrified this still life into a bold screenprint with colors weaving through his hand-drawn outlines of the objects on the table to keep the party going on ever after.

“I have a Social Disease.

I have to go out every night.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Marsha P. Johnson, 1974

Polacolor

Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 6,500 USD

Marsha P. Johnson (1945–1992): Marsha P. Johnson was among the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 70s in New York. Johnson self-identified as a gay person, a transvestite, and a drag queen. Despite facing countless hardships, she was always smiling and adopted the full name Marsha P. Johnson, with the “P” standing for “Pay It No Mind,” her response to questions about her gender. She was a prominent figure in the Stonewall riots in 1969 and was a tireless advocate for gay and transgender rights, for those affected by HIV and AIDS and for homeless LGBTQ+ youth.

Ozzy Osbourne and Dianne Brill, 1986

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 7,000 USD

Ozzy Osbourne (b. 1948): Sometimes referred to as the “Godfather of Metal,” Ozzy Osbourne is an English musician and television personality who gained notoriety as the lead singer for Black Sabbath. Osbourne’s albums have sold over 100 million copies. Osbourne has struggled with drug and alcohol misuse throughout his career, leading to frequent turmoil with the band and his family.

Dianne Brill (b. 1958): Dianne Brill was a fixture of the New York club scene in the 1980s and Warhol referred to her as the “Queen of the Night.” Brill is a fashion designer, author and model. Her 1992 book, Boobs, Boys and High Heels, or How to Get Dressed in Just Under Six Hours, details beauty, makeup and romantic advice. Andy Warhol said of Brill, “If you were at a party and Dianne Brill was there, you knew you were at the right party!”

Robert Rauschenberg and Bianca Jagger, 1983

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 8,800 USD

Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008): With a career spanning nearly six decades, American artist Robert Rauschenberg worked in a wide range of media including sculpture, printmaking, photography, painting and assemblage. Rauschenberg had a close relationship with artist Jasper Johns, both of whom were extremely influential to Warhol, especially as he emerged onto the New York fine art scene. Rauschenberg was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1993.

Bianca Jagger (b. 1945): Bianca Jagger is an ardent advocate for civil liberties and human rights. The ex-wife of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, she was a regular of the New York City disco scene, perhaps most famously riding a white horse at Studio 54 on her birthday. She also regularly conducted interviews for Warhol’s Interview magazine. Born in Nicaragua, Jagger actively promotes social rights globally.

“A good Warhol may not be a Warhol. A bad one can’t exist. He befuddles critical history. Whether he sacrificed this or didn’t give a damn doesn’t make a damn. His impact on our lives remains explosive.”

–ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Keith Haring, 1985

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 9,000 USD

Keith Haring (1958–1990): Keith Haring is among the most recognizable and important figures of the American pop art movement. Central to the New York art scene, Haring was friends with Warhol, Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat and countless other creatives. He embraced public art and used his work as a form of social activism, promoting love, safe sex and AIDS awareness. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding and imagery for children’s programs and AIDS organizations. He tragically died at the age of 31 from complications of AIDS but his activism and social engagement live on in the work of his Foundation.

Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

3,000 USD

Dorothy Lichtenstein (b. 1939): Dorothy Lichtenstein is a philanthropist who has been active in the New York contemporary art world for decades. She married the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1968. Warhol painted portraits of her in 1974 and the Lichtensteins traded two of Roy’s paintings for the Warhols. She currently serves on the boards of numerous institutions committed to the arts and is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

“I’m just watching, observing the world.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Sylvester Stallone, 1979

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 8,000 USD

Sylvester Stallone (b. 1946): After struggling for many years to make his way in movies, New York actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone rose to international fame for his role as boxer Rocky Balboa in the series Rocky, for which he also wrote a number of the screenplays. His career as an action star and cultural icon is so far-reaching that Stallone has starred in a box-office number one film for six consecutive decades.

Potassa de Lafayette, 1977

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 2,500 USD

Potassa de Lafayette (dates unknown): A Dominican model who was a denizen of Studio 54, de Lafayette was one of the first openly transgender models of color. She was frequently seen with Salvador Dalí, as well as with Warhol. While she was posing for this Polaroid series in 1977 at Warhol’s studio, artist Jamie Wyeth was also present and did a series of sketches of her.

Stephen Sprouse, 1984

Polacolor ER, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 4,000 USD

Stephen Sprouse (1953–2004): Stephen Sprouse was a pivotal New York fashion designer in the 1980s known for mixing sophistication in fashion with a pop aesthetic, creating what has been referred to as “punk couture.” Sprouse’s designs frequently featured fluorescent colors, sequins, graffiti and velcro. He was a staple of Warhol’s coterie and a favorite designer of Blondie, Madonna, Billy Idol, Duran Duran and many others. Warhol was buried in a Stephen Sprouse suit.

Saturday, November 17, 1984

I was next to Stephen Sprouse and he’s so hard to talk to, but I’m just crazy about him, he’s adorable. And we were all wearing Stephen Sprouse.

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Band Members, Madison Square Garden, 1986

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 4,000 USD

This photograph was taken backstage at Madison Square Garden in July 1986 while Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were on their True Confessions Tour. Dylan was one of Petty’s childhood idols. The two legendary performers played a three hour set with a surprise appearance by Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones while Warhol was in attendance.

Bob Dylan (b. 1941): With a career that has spanned more than 60 years, Bob Dylan is considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Many of his songs have become anthems for civil rights and antiwar sentiments. With his distinctively raw voice, Dylan is mostly considered a folk singer though his style has evolved to incorporate elements of blues, gospel and rock. In 2016, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tom Petty (1950–2017): Tom Petty was the lead vocalist and guitarist for the American rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Formed in 1976, the band had a series of hit songs and sold millions of albums and their iconic status was solidified as performers at the 2008 Super Bowl halftime show. Petty died at the age of 66 from an accidental drug overdose.

Thursday, July 17, 1986

And then Ric Ocasek was picking us up to take us over to Madison Square Garden. […] And we went to the Garden and I didn’t know this could be done but the limo drove right into the Garden. You drive right (laughs) onto the stage. Yes, you really do. […] And they took us into the room and Dylan was there and Tom Petty and Ron Wood. […] And Dylan looks good, he had silver-tipped cowboy boots on and he was drinking Jim Beam.

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Gianni Versace, 1980

Polacolor 2, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 3,800 USD

Gianni Versace (1946–1997): Founder of the luxury fashion house Versace, Gianni Versace was a legendary Italian designer and businessman known for his daring fashions and glamorous lifestyle. Versace has been credited with ushering in the celebrity-fueled sensationalism associated with fashion shows today. He was also famed for building his fashion house into a luxury empire with offerings including homewares, jewelry, furnishings and textiles. Versace was tragically murdered by a serial killer outside his home in Miami at the age of 50.

BillyBoy*, 1985

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 2,000 USD

BillyBoy* (b. 1960): BillyBoy* is an American jewelry designer, artist and socialite. BillyBoy* amassed a collection of more than ten thousand Barbie dolls and worked with Mattel to curate exhibitions and design a few dolls himself. He was friends with Warhol in the mid 1980s and the two spent time together in both New York and Paris. In 1986, Warhol painted a portrait of BillyBoy* as Barbie.

“A lot of people thought the Factory was hanging but that’s absolutely backward; who was hanging around

ANDY WARHOL

Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

3,000 USD

Dorothy Lichtenstein (b. 1939): Dorothy Lichtenstein is a philanthropist who has been active in the New York contemporary art world for decades. She married the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1968. Warhol painted portraits of her in 1974 and the Lichtensteins traded two of Roy’s paintings for the Warhols. She currently serves on the boards of numerous institutions committed to the arts and is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

thought it was me everyone at hanging around, [...] backward; it was me around everyone else.” –

Robert Mapplethorpe, c. 1972

Polaroid glued to board or paper, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 6,000 USD

Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989): One of the most influential and controversial American photographers, Robert Mapplethorpe is perhaps best known for his artful images of gay male BDSM culture. In 1969, Mapplethorpe and his friend and partner, Patti Smith, moved into the Chelsea Hotel. They remained prominent figures in the downtown New York art scene throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s. Mapplethorpe also created many striking formal portraits of friends and celebrities, as well as classically inspired nudes and carefully composed images of flowers. He died in 1989 at the age of 42 from complications related to HIV/AIDS. The year before his death, Mapplethorpe established the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to promote photography as an art form and to fund HIV/AIDS medical research.

Annie Leibovitz, 1976

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 7,200 USD

Annie Leibovitz (b. 1949): An American photographer, Annie Leibovitz is best known for her portraits, especially of celebrities. Leibovitz has had a prolific career working for magazines, on various commissions while also taking personal photographs. She worked for Rolling Stone from 1970 until 1980, then for Vanity Fair and, since the 1990s, she has contributed regularly to Vogue.

Steve Rubell, 1983

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 9,500 USD

Steve Rubell (1943–1989): Steve Rubell was the co-founder of the renowned New York nightclubs Studio 54 and Palladium. Considered a master promoter, Rubell helped define the disco craze of the late 1970s, hosting celebrities and various society figures at his clubs, Warhol chief among them. In 1979, Rubell was indicted for evading corporate and personal taxes and served a prison sentence. He was able to rebound however and went on to form a successful real-estate syndicate.

“Steve Rubell is Studio 54. Just like Regine is Regine’s and Ed Sullivan was The Ed Sullivan Show. Steve runs Studio 54 like his living room. He only lets in people he likes. He likes beautiful girls, beautiful boys, stars, society, and press. He wants a balance, ‘a tossed salad.’ He runs around all night tossing it. He’s always making sure everyone has a drink and introduces people to each other. He hates it when he doesn’t know what’s happening all over the room. He really loves 54.”

“I love the way Steve talks – backwards, upside down, and inside out. He says the same old thing in a brand-new way, which is really creative because when you think about it everything’s the same old thing.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Rolling Stones, 1977

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 5,800 USD

This Polaroid of Keith Richards biting Ron Wood’s torso was part of Warhol’s session with the Rolling Stones to create the cover for their 1977 album, Love You Live. Warhol took a series of photographs of the band members pretending to devour each other from which he developed line drawings as well. Collaging the Polaroids and applying dynamic colors as well, Warhol designed the front, back and inside of the album cover, the LP sleeves and a poster for the launch of the album.

Tuesday, April 12, 1977

Mick wants me to do the cover on his next album. I’m trying to think of ideas, how to do “Rolling Stones,” one of those little plastic games where you have to roll the stones into the holes.

Thursday, September 29, 1977

Mick arrived twenty minutes late in a really good mood— I was photographing the Stones. Then everybody started arriving— Ron Wood and Earl McGrath and Keith Richards who I think is just the most adorable person, I love him.

Monday, June 5, 1978

I told Jerry [Hall] I thought Mick had ruined the Love You Live cover I did for them by writing all over it— it’s his handwriting, and he wrote so big. The kids who buy the album would have a good piece of art if he hadn’t spoiled it.

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Diane von Furstenberg and Jerry Hall, 1984

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 5,000 USD

Diane von Furstenberg (b. 1946): Diane von Furstenberg is a renowned fashion designer whose eponymous label has grown into a global lifestyle brand. In 1974, von Furstenberg created the wrap dress, which melded femininity with functionality. Von Furstenberg and Warhol moved in the same social circles and were often seen together throughout the ‘70s and ‘80s. Von Furstenberg served as chairwoman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America for more than ten years and she remains an active philanthropist and mentor.

Jerry Hall (b. 1956): Jerry Hall is a supermodel and actress who was a central figure of the New York social scene in the 1970s. Hall was in a relationship with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for more than 20 years and frequently crossed paths with Warhol at various parties and nightclubs.

Naomi Sims, c. 1971

Polaroid glued to board or paper, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 5,000 USD

Naomi Sims (1948–2009): Naomi Sims was an American supermodel, businesswoman and writer. In 1968, Sims became the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Ladies’ Home Journal and she continued to break barriers throughout her career. In 1973, she retired from modeling to start a wig-making business with styles designed for black women. It eventually expanded into a multimillion-dollar beauty empire and Sims wrote at least five books on modeling and beauty.

“My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Arnold Schwarzenegger, 1977

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 8,000 USD

Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1947): The famed Austrian and American, Arnold Schwarzenegger began his career as a bodybuilder, gaining international stardom as an actor in Hollywood action movies such as Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator. A longtime Republican, Schwarzenegger became directly involved in American politics in the 1990s and was eventually elected Governor of California, a position he held from 2003–2011.

Martin Scorsese, 1984

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 5,200 USD

Martin Scorsese (b. 1942): Martin Scorsese is an American filmmaker who has shaped not only movie history but popular culture since the 1970s. Largely influenced by his Italian-American upbringing, his films are often intense, character-driven crime dramas, including Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, The Departed and Gangs of New York and many others. Scorsese has founded and supported a number of organizations for film preservation and restoration.

Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 3,000 USD

Dorothy Lichtenstein (b. 1939): Dorothy Lichtenstein is a philanthropist who has been active in the New York contemporary art world for decades. She married the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1968. Warhol painted portraits of her in 1974 and the Lichtensteins traded two of Roy’s paintings for the Warhols. She currently serves on the boards of numerous institutions committed to the arts and is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Party with Kenny and Tereza Scharf, Francesco and Alba Clemente, Stephen Steven Greenberg and Others, c. 1986

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 10,000 USD

Warhol was famously ever-present on the New York social scene throughout the 70s and 80s, often attending multiple dinners and parties in a single evening. He frequented certain places, such as the Odeon, Mr. Chow’s, Studio 54, Max’s Kansas City, Area nightclub but also was constantly paying visits to fellow artists, clients and friends. There always seemed to be a party at Halston’s apartment, art openings and film premieres, and then of course there was The Factory itself. The remarkable thing about so many of these events was the cross section of individuals from different creative practices and professions and social strata, all with varying ages and unique styles. There didn’t need to be an ocassion, just getting together was enough. Seen in this photograph are fellow painters Francesco Clemente and Kenny Scharf, fashion designer Stephen Sprouse, collector Steven Greenberg, actress Alba Clemente and many others.

“Andy Warhol found his subject matter in common places and asked the questions that everybody was too intelligent to ask. He was the exemplary mediator between the meaningful and the meaningless.”

– FRANCESCO CLEMENTE

Stephen Sprouse,

“But I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party.”

– ANDY WARHOL

“Another idea we had in mind when we went to check out the Velvets was that they might be a good band to play behind Nico, an incredible German beauty who’d just arrived in New York from London. She looked like she could have made the trip over right at the front of a Viking ship [...] People described her voice as everything from eery, to bland and smooth, to slow and hollow, to a ‘wind in a drainpipe,’ to an ‘IBM computer with a Garbo accent.’” –

Nico, 1971

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 4,750 USD

Nico (1938–1988): German-born Nico began her career as a model in Europe before moving to New York. She had some minor acting roles, including a brief part in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita before she began singing. Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones introduced Nico to Warhol who was immediately taken by her striking presence. She appeared in several of Warhol’s films in the ‘60s, including Chelsea Girls. When managing the rock band The Velvet Underground, Warhol convinced the group to let Nico sing. She sang lead vocals on several songs on the band’s first album, before moving on to start a solo career.

Leo Castelli, 1981

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 7,000 USD

Leo Castelli (1907–1999): An Italian-American art dealer, Leo Castelli has been called “the godfather of the contemporary art world.”. Running his eponymous gallery in New York City for more than 40 years, Castelli helped launch the careers of many of the most important artists of the twentieth century, including Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Donald Judd, Richard Serra, Ed Ruscha and Claes Oldenberg. Through his support of these and many other artists, Castelli shaped the movements of Pop, Minimalist and Conceptual Art. The Castelli Gallery continues to operate in New York under the direction of his wife, Barbara Bertozzi Castelli.

Jasper Johns, c. 1977

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 7,800 USD

Jasper Johns (b. 1930): Jasper Johns is an iconic American artist whose work transcends easy characterization. Perhaps best known for his renderings of the American flag, Johns works in a variety of media from sculpture to painting to printmaking. Johns spent much of his career in New York City, surrounded by other artists. He was close friends with Robert Rauschenberg, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Warhol greatly admired Johns and the two were introduced in 1962 by Henry Geldzahler, Curator for American Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Johns was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.

Kenzō Takada, 1975

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 2,500 USD

Kenzō Takada (1939 - 2020): Kenzō Takada was a Japanese designer who founded the international luxury fashion brand Kenzo. Takada spent most of his life in Paris, opening his first store there in 1970. Kenzo flourished throughout the 70s and 80s and eventually expanded to include fragrances, skin care and home collections.

André Leon Talley, 1982

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 5,000 USD

André Leon Talley (1948–2022): The writer, editor and unmistakable persona, André Leon Talley was the first Black creative director at American Vogue and a pioneering force in fashion. Talley began his career as a receptionist at Warhol’s Interview Magazine. As Talley wrote in his memoir, “the idea of a Black man playing any kind of role in this world seemed an impossibility, [...] And, yet, of course, we still have so far to go.”

Issey Miyake, 860 Broadway, 1982

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 6,400 USD

Issey Miyake (1938–2022): Among the first Japanese fashion designers to show in Paris, Issey Miyake helped bring Japanese fashion to the rest of the world. Known for his micro pleating and designs that afforded bodily freedom and movement, Miyake also developed fragrances and collaborated with a number of artists. In 1945, at the age of seven, Miyake survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In 2010, he received Japan’s Order of Culture, the country’s highest honor for the arts.

Monday, April 12, 1982

Billy Squier came to lunch, and also at this lunch was Issey Miyake, and he’s going to start a men’s line.

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

“A picture just means I know where I was every minute. That’s why I take pictures. It’s a visual diary.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Mick Jagger and Marina

Schiano, 1976-77

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 7,000 USD

Mick Jagger (b. 1943): Mick Jagger is one of the most famous rockstars of all time. A founding member, songwriter and lead vocalist for the Rolling Stones, Jagger is internationally recognized as a musical legend. Jagger’s serious drug use, infamous romantic relationships and rebellious nature have contributed to a tumultuous career and personal life but he remains a cultural icon. Jagger and Warhol often crossed paths on the society party circuit and Jagger and his family spent extended stays at Warhol’s vacation estate in Montauk, New York. Warhol also designed the album covers for the Stones’ Sticky Fingers and Love You Live.

Marina Schiano (1941–2019): Arriving in New York in 1967, Marina Schiano was an Italian model, fashion executive and jewelry designer. Her distinctive style and bold presence made her a longtime muse to Yves Saint Laurent and she eventually became the executive vice president of YSL. She was a striking figure in the New York society scene, regularly spotted with Diana Vreeland, Diane von Furstenberg and Warhol. In 1973, she was briefly married to Warhol’s business manager Fred Hughes. She was the creative style director of Vanity Fair from 1985 until 1992.

Jed Johnson, 1972

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 3,000 USD

Jed Johnson (1948–1996): Jed Johnson moved to New York from California in 1968. After delivering a telegram to the Factory, Johnson was quickly offered a job due to his personable demeanor and professionalism. After Warhol was shot in 1968, Johnson became his live-in caretaker and companion and the two dated for more than a decade. Johnson developed a successful career as an interior designer, working for clients such as Peter Brant, Mick Jagger, Barbra Streisand and Yves Saint Laurent. Johnson died tragically in 1996 in the crash of TWA Flight 800, at the age of 47.

Paul Morrissey, 1971

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 2,500 USD

Paul Morrissey (b. 1938): American filmmaker Paul Morrissey is best known for his bold, experimental underground films, many of which were collaborations with Warhol. Morrissey met Warhol in 1965 and started hanging around the Factory to be around filmmaking. Morrissey began contributing ideas and eventually wrote and directed many of Warhol’s films, including Lonesome Cowboys, Flesh, Trash and Heat.

“It was fun to do things with and for Andy. He was never pretentious, always positive, and always looked for humor in any subject or situation. Introspection was not his thing, and he was not quite like anyone else. But although he kept his reserve and his distance, you felt you knew who you were dealing with, and it was not hard to like him.”

– PAUL MORRISSEY

“He had a real “angry young man” look, in photographs especially—he’d always scowl and put his chin down. He dressed in army surplus—type clothes—thirteen-button sailor pants and turtlenecks—while the rest of us all wore the blue jeans-T-shirt uniform. He wasn’t into mirrors a lot. He was tall and a little birdlike, with curly hair that he was just starting to keep very full and disheveled in the Dylan style.

Paul knew more about the critical and historical approaches to film—especially Hollywood films—than anybody who’d ever been around the Factory. [...] Paul was very resourceful— eventually to the point where he came to seem magical to us.”

– ANDY WARHOL

Gilbert, 1976

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ Sold as a set of two, starting

Gilbert Prousch (b. 1943) and George Passmore (b. 1942): Gilbert stating, “We are two people, but one artist.” They work in a variety collage and drawing, though they consider everything they do to controversial, they have enjoyed popular and critical acclaim

George, 1976

4¼ x 3⅜ inches each

starting at 7,200 USD

& George met in London and began creating art together in 1967, variety of mediums including photography, performance art, video, be sculpture. While their work is often irreverent and sometimes acclaim for decades and continue to push the artistic boundaries.

Candy Darling, 1971

Polaroid glued to board or paper, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 3,000 USD

Candy Darling (1944–1974): Candy Darling was a transgender icon and Warhol superstar. Known for her beauty and her talent, Darling starred in a number of Warhol’s films and other independent movies, as well as appearing in various theatrical performances in New York. She died of cancer in 1974 at the age of 29.

“Candy was the most striking drag queen I’d ever seen.”

–

ANDY WARHOL

Beverly Johnson (b. 1952): In 1974, Beverly Johnson became the first woman of color to appear on the cover of American Vogue. Johnson has gone on to appear on more than 500 magazine covers, helping to redefine preconceived ideals of beauty. A model, author, actor and entrepreneur, The New York Times named Johnson one of the 20th Century’s 100 Most Influential People in the Fashion Industry.

Jean Michel Basquiat (1960–1988): Jean Michel Basquiat was a New York artist who rapidly rose to stardom in the early 1980s. He began as a graffiti artist and, while his tags were ubiquitous throughout the city, it was his vivid, gritty Neo-Expressionist paintings that caused his fame to skyrocket. Much of his work involves social commentary on race and class in America, weaving in text and various iconographies to create his impactful images. He met Warhol in 1982 and the two became very close friends, traveling and working together. Basquiat died at the age of 27 from a drug overdose. He remains an enduring artistic and cultural icon. In 2017, a Basquiat painting sold at auction for more than $110MM.

Monday, September 5, 1983

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Jean Michel called, he wanted some philosophy, he came over and we talked, and he’s afraid he’s just going to be a flash in the pan. And I told him not to worry, that he wouldn’t be.

Jean Michel Basquiat and Beverly Johnson, 1985

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 10,000 USD

Jonas Mekas, c. 1972

Polaroid glued to board or paper, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 2,500 USD

Jonas Mekas (1922 - 2019): Referred to as “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema,” Jonas Mekas was a hugely influential filmmaker, critic and poet. Born in Lithuanian, Mekas fled the Nazis and moved to New York City where he co-founded Anthology Film Archives, a center for experimental film screenings, and the Film-Makers’ Co-op. Mekas supported anti-censorship campaigns throughout the 1960s, particularly in defense of LGBTQ-themed films. Warhol attended many of Mekas’ screenings. The two met in 1963 and went on to become friends and collaborators.

“Jonas didn’t learn a word of English until after the war. Once, when I asked him how he got so interested in film, he said, “To write in a language, you have to be born to it, so I could never really communicate through writing. But in films you work with images, and I saw that I could use something other than written language to shout about what had happened to me and everyone else in the war.” (The first film he did, Guns of the Trees in ’61, was literally full of shouting and spitting, as if he were getting the whole war out of his system.) Jonas had as serious a view of film as he had of life. He was the most un Pop person I can think of in the sixties, he was such an intellectual. But he was also a great organizer, and he gave the people making small films a place to show them.

In ’61, when Jonas was having screenings in the Charles Theater on Avenue B and 12th Street down on the Lower East Side, the young guys who owned the theater let him have open screenings where people could show any films of theirs they wanted. These places where people could get together and exchange ideas were a lot like a party.

I used to see some of the programs and open screenings at the Charles until it closed in ’62, and I also used to go with friends to the Film-Makers’ Coop on Park Avenue South, which was also where, as I said, Jonas lived in a corner: after being pushed around from country to country, he finally felt like he had a home.”

Joseph Gelmis: What have you Andy Warhol: Just photographing Joseph Gelmis: Is it preparation planning in the back of your Andy Warhol: No. Things always know what’s going to happen.

you been doing until now? photographing what happens. preparation for something you’re your mind? always happen, so you never happen.

Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

3,000 USD

Dorothy Lichtenstein (b. 1939): Dorothy Lichtenstein is a philanthropist who has been active in the New York contemporary art world for decades. She married the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1968. Warhol painted portraits of her in 1974 and the Lichtensteins traded two of Roy’s paintings for the Warhols. She currently serves on the boards of numerous institutions committed to the arts and is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

Angel Ortiz and Kenny Scharf, 1984

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 7,200 USD

Angel Ortiz (b. 1967): An American graffiti artist, Angel Ortiz (also known professionally as “LA II” and “Little Angel”) was one of Keith Haring’s closest collaborators. Haring purportedly discovered LA II in 1980 when he was only 13 years old, and the two began working together on murals, paintings, sculptures and other objects. LA II continues to create art in New York.

Kenny Scharf (b. 1958): Embedded in the downtown New York art world in the 1980s, Kenny Scharf is best recognized for his imaginative, psychedelic characters and scenes. His colorful graffiti work throughout the East Village captured much attention and he became central to the Warhol, Haring, Basquiat orbit. Scharf celebrates popular culture and is known in the present day for pursuing many merchandise collaborations.

Pat Hackett, 1971

Polaroid glued to board or paper, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 2,500 USD

Pat Hackett (b. unknown): Pat Hackett is a freelance writer, best known for her numerous collaborations with Warhol, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, POPism: The Warhol Sixties and most especially The Andy Warhol Diaries. While Warhol initially contacted Hackett for help documenting his business expenses for audits, their relationship quickly developed into something much closer. Warhol dictated his activities and reflections to Hackett by phone daily from 1976 until five days before his death in 1987. Hackett edited these telephone conversations into The Andy Warhol Diaries, published in 1989.

“I think the best family in the world is the Kennedy-Onassis-Bouvier-Beale-Radziwill family. They have everything. Power, money, beauty, and religion [...] I really don’t know anybody in the Best Family that well except for Lee Radziwill, who I like a lot. Lee has always liked to be around creative people – Truman Capote, Nureyev, Mick Jagger. She’s very creative herself.” –

ANDY WARHOL

Lee Radziwill, Montauk, c. 1972

Polaroid glued to board or paper, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 4,000 USD

Lee Radziwill (1933–2019): An American socialite and fashion icon, Lee Radziwill was the younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Radziwill attempted careers in acting and writing but found more success as an interior decorator.

Part of the 1970s New York party circuit, Radziwill was friends with Truman Capote who introduced her to Warhol. She and her family rented Warhol’s estate in Montauk in 1972, solidifying their friendship.

Corey Tippin, Jay Johnson, Jane Forth and Donna Jordan, 1970

Polacolor Type 108, 3⅜ x 4¼ inches

Starting at 2,400 USD

Corey Tippin (dates unknown): Corey Tippin is a model, artist and make-up artist who was part of the New York City underground art scene. Tippin appeared in Yves Saint Laurent’s first men’s ready-to-wear collection in 1972. A star in Warhol’s film L’Amour, Tippin is also featured in the documentary Antonio López 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco

Jay Johnson (b. 1948): Jay Johnson moved from California to New York in 1967 with his twin brother, Jed. Shortly upon their arrival in New York, Jed met Warhol and the two soon entered into a twelve year relationship. Jay took over his brother’s design company following Jed’s untimely death in 1996. Private and shy, Jay Johnson and his partner, Tom Cashin, now live in Long Island, New York.

Jane Forth (b. 1953): Jane Forth is an actress, model and one of Warhol’s Superstars. Forth starred in Warhol’s films Women in Revolt, L’Amour, and Trash. With her singular sense of style, Forth was a muse for many designers, including illustrator Antonio Lopez and designer Diane von Furstenberg.

Donna Jordan (b. 1950): Donna Jordan is an American model, actress and one of Warhol’s Superstars. Jordan starred alongside Jane Forth and Corey Tippin in Warhol’s film L’Amour. Known for her captivating gap-toothed smile, Jordan appeared on many magazine covers, including Vogue Paris and Vogue Italia. Donna was a muse to Karl Lagerfeld and part of Yves Saint Laurent’s circle in Paris.

Paige Powell, 1984

Polacolor ER, 3⅜ x 4¼ inches

Starting at 2,500 USD

Paige Powell (b. 1950): An American photographer and curator, Paige Powell was a fixture of the 1980s New York art scene. Powell began working for Interview Magazine in 1982 where she quickly became close friends with Warhol and many others. She was one of the first to exhibit Jean Michel Basquiat’s paintings and soon after they became romantically involved. She continues her work as an artist and art advisor and is also a passionate animal rights activist.

Larry Rivers (1923–2002): Larry Rivers was an influential artist, filmmaker, jazz musician, author and teacher.Rivers was known as much for his vibrant personality as for his prolific work. His paintings blended abstract and narrative elements. As Warhol himself said, “Larry’s painting style was unique—it wasn’t Abstract Expressionist and it wasn’t Pop, it fell into the period in between. But his personality was very Pop—he rode around on a motorcycle and he had a sense of humor about himself as well as everybody else.”

Marisol Escobar (1930–2016): The Venezuelan-American sculptor known simply as Marisol lived and worked in New York City and enjoyed a successful career in the 1960s. Her work, often in the form of assemblage sculptures, explores female experience and representation. Over time, she was written out of the white male-dominated Pop movement and her work went overlooked for many decades and is still underrecognized. Marisol was friends with Warhol in the ‘60s, appearing in two of his early films, Kiss and 13 Most Beautiful Girls.

Thursday, April 24, 1980

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Then Larry and Marisol came to the office for lunch. Marisol was cute. She invited me to her fiftieth birthday party at Chanterelle, that very chic small restaurant downtown, but she said not to tell anybody it was her fiftieth.

Larry Rivers and Marisol Escobar,

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 3,500 USD

“My prediction from the ‘In the future everyone will be I’m bored with that line. My new line is, ‘In fifteen minutes –

Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

3,000 USD

Dorothy Lichtenstein (b. 1939): Dorothy Lichtenstein is a philanthropist who has been active in the New York contemporary art world for decades. She married the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1968. Warhol painted portraits of her in 1974 and the Lichtensteins traded two of Roy’s paintings for the Warhols. She currently serves on the boards of numerous institutions committed to the arts and is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

sixties finally came true: be famous for fifteen minutes.’

I never use it anymore. minutes everybody will be famous.’”

– ANDY WARHOL

Joey Arias, Halloween, 1986

Black and white print, 10 x 8 inches

Starting at 5,000 USD

Joey Arias (b. 1949): Joey Arias is an American artist best known for his work as a drag artist, cabaret singer and performance artist. Arias has spent most of his career in New York City where he was a part of the 1980s downtown performance art scene, appearing often at various nightclubs.

Friday, October 31, 1986

Halloween has really turned into a big holiday. It just used to be for kids but now it’s the whole city. All the drag queens came in and I didn’t recognize Kenny Scharf, I didn’t at all. I finally recognized Joey Arias. I figured him out.

– THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES

Julian Schnabel, Kenny Scharf and LeRoy Neiman, 1985

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Startring at 7,200 USD

Julian Schnabel (b.1951): American artist Julian Schnabel contributed to the emergence of Neo-Expressionist painting in the 1980s. His monumental works integrate various materials such as broken ceramic plates and textiles. Since the 1990s, he has worked as a filmmaker. As Schnabel said, “There are the rocks, the sea, and the sky; the days, the hours, the minutes; pain; the temperature of a particular day – all permutations of reality – and there is Andy Warhol.”

Kenny Scharf (b. 1958): Deeply embedded in the downtown New York art world in the 1980s, Kenny Scharf is best recognized for his vibrant, imaginative, psychedelic characters and scenes. His colorful graffiti work throughout the East Village captured much attention and he became central to the Warhol, Haring, Basquiat orbit. Scharf celebrates popular culture and is known in the present day for pursuing many merchandise collaborations.

LeRoy Neiman (1921–2012): LeRoy Neiman was an American commercial artist best known for his brightly colored gestural paintings of sporting events and athletes. He often sketched on live television and his work was frequently published in Playboy. A series of exhibitions in the 1980s jointly featured sports paintings by Neiman and Warhol. Neiman was also a philanthropist, sponsoring organizations to support art activities for underprivileged children.

“Uh. . . Man Ray was this wonderful person that uh. . . that uh. . . Luciano . . . Luciano Anselmino introduced me to. [...] And he was really cute. He took a picture of me and I took a picture of him and then he took another picture of me and I took another picture of him and he took another picture of me and I took another picture of him and he took another picture of me and I took another picture of him and he took another picture of me and then I took the one of him...” –

ANDY WARHOL

Man Ray, Paris, 1973

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 6,000 USD

Man Ray (1890-1976): Man Ray was an American artist who spent most of career in Paris. He worked in various media, primarily painting and photography, and contributed considerably to both the Dada and Surrealist movements. Warhol photographed Man Ray in his studio in Paris in November 1973 when Man Ray was eighty-three years old.

Holly Woodlawn, 1971

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 4,000 USD

Holly Woodlawn (1946–2015): Known as one of Warhol’s Superstars, Holly Woodlawn was an American transgender actress who appeared in Warhol’s films Trash and Women in Revolt. Born in Puerto Rico, Woodlawn grew up in Florida but ran away from home at the age of fifteen, hitchhiking her way to New York City. Woodlawn is commemorated in Lou Reed’s song “Walk on the Wild Side.”

Juan Hamilton and Georgia O’Keeffe, 1980

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

Starting at 8,000 USD

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986): Georgia O’Keeffe is among the most significant modern American artists. O’Keeffe lived in New York for a number of years with the renowned photographer, Alfred Stieglitz. She later became enchanted with the culture and landscape of New Mexico. Her distinctive paintings, especially of abstracted flowers, bones and the American Southwest, have influenced artists since the 1920s.

Juan Hamilton (b. 1945): Juan Hamilton, a ceramicist, met Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico in 1973 and spent the next thirteen years serving as her studio assistant and companion. Their age difference caused a stir in the art world. Since the late ‘80s, Hamilton has been focused on his career as a sculptor.

Keith Haring, Paige Powell and Juan Dubose at the Odeon, New York City, 1984

Black and white print, 8 x 10 inches

Starting at 8,200 USD

Keith Haring (1958–1990): Keith Haring, among the most recognizable and important figures in the American pop art movement. A central figure in the New York art scene, Haring was friends with Warhol, Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat and countless other creatives. He embraced public art and used his work as a form of social activism, promoting love, safe sex and AIDS awareness. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation to provide funding and imagery for children’s programs and AIDS organizations. He tragically died at the age of 31 from complications of AIDS but his activism and social engagement live on in the work of his Foundation.

Paige Powell (b. 1950): An American photographer and curator, Paige Powell was a fixture of the 1980s New York art scene. Powell began working for Interview Magazine in 1982 where she quickly became close friends with Warhol and many others. She was one of the first to exhibit Jean Michel Basquiat’s paintings and soon after they became romantically involved. She continues her work as an artist and art advisor and is also a passionate animal rights activist.

Juan Dubose (1959–1989): Juan Dubose was a DJ, playing at some of New York City’s most popular clubs, including Area. Reportedly, Mick Jagger asked Dubose to mix his first solo album. Dubose and Keith Haring dated for a number of years and Warhol took numerous photographs of the couple and painted portraits of the two of them embracing. Dubose died of complications from AIDS in 1989.

Andy Warhol’s Exposures, 1979

Vintage poster, 23 x 27⅝ inches

Starting at 500 USD

This poster was produced in conjunction with the book Andy Warhol’s Exposures. The book, illustrated with photographs taken by Warhol with text written by Warhol and Bob Colacello, explores Warhol’s social network of the 1970s. The poster mimics the cover of the book with a collage of photos of socialites, celebrities and Warhol himself.

“You really have Social Disease when you make all the play work. The only reason to play hard is to work hard, not the other way around like most people think.

That’s why I take my tape recorder everywhere I can. I also take my camera everywhere. Having a few rolls of film to develop gives me a good reason to get up in the morning.”

– ANDY WARHOL From the Introduction to Exposures

Quotes from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1975), Andy Warhol’s Exposures (Andy Warhol Books/Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., 1979), POPism, The Warhol Sixties (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980), Andy Warhol: A Retrospective (Bulfinch Press, Little Brown & Co., 1989), The Andy Warhol Diaries (Hachette Book Group, 1989) and I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews (Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004).

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Dorothy Lichtenstein, 1974

Polacolor Type 108, 4¼ x 3⅜ inches

3,000 USD

Dorothy Lichtenstein (b. 1939): Dorothy Lichtenstein is a philanthropist who has been active in the New York contemporary art world for decades. She married the late Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein in 1968. Warhol painted portraits of her in 1974 and the Lichtensteins traded two of Roy’s paintings for the Warhols. She currently serves on the boards of numerous institutions committed to the arts and is president of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation.

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

– ANDY WARHOL

All net proceeds from Andy Warhol Social Network will support The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The Andy Warhol Foundation was established in 1987 in accordance with Andy Warhol’s will for the advancement of the visual arts. Through their grant making initiatives, the Foundation supports the creation, presentation and documentation of contemporary visual art, particularly work that is experimental, under-recognized, or challenging in nature.