Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Never-before-seen pictures of celebrities like Mick Jagger, Sting and John ...


  • The pop artist’s long-term friend has released candid shots of superstars that have never been seen by art lovers

  • As well as shots of stars like Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, the images feature self portraits

  • Only one print of each was made, sending their value spiralling upward



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    Photographs of celebrities captured in informal moments by the artist Andy Warhol are to be seen by the public for the first time.


    The American pop artist focused on photography towards the end of his career and took pictures of his famous friends in candid and spontaneous moments.


    Many of his subjects were showbusiness friends who visited his luxurious beach house or his New York studio known as The Factory.


    Now the exhibit I’ll Be Your Mirror will show superstars like John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Liza Minnelli, Diana Ross and Debbie Harry.


    These never-before-seen photographs of celebrities captured by Andy Warhol are about to become and exhibition. This 1979 picture shows John Lennon and the boyfriend of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston


    These never-before-seen photographs of celebrities captured by Andy Warhol are about to become and exhibition. This 1979 picture shows John Lennon and the boyfriend of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston



    Icons: Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and author William Burroughs, who wrote Naked Lunch and other seminal postmodern works


    Icons: Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones and author William Burroughs, who wrote Naked Lunch and other seminal postmodern works



    Warhol’s shot of Lennon was taken in New York in 1979, a year before he was murdered, and shows the boyfriend of fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick, known as Halston, poking his tongue out behind the Beatle.


    Warhol also turned his artistic eye to capturing domestic items and hum-drum objects like a room service tray and, bizarrely, a row of toilet urinals.


    The body of work also includes a number of self-portraits, including one of him wearing a green jumper and eating a bowl of cornflakes.


    Warhol, who died in 1987, only ever made one print of each of his photos, so they are unique works of art.


    New Jersey rock musician Bruce Springsteen caught in a candid moment


    John


    Broken heroes: New Jersey rock musician Bruce Springsteen caught in a candid moment. Right, Musician John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez and Madonna



    Sting, formerly of The Police. Warhol, who died in 1987, only ever made one print of each of his photos, so they are unique works of art.


    Sting, formerly of The Police. Warhol, who died in 1987, only ever made one print of each of his photos, so they are unique works of art.



    He gave many of them to his long-time diarist, Pat Hackett, and they will now be exhibited and sold. They will go on general sale at the online art and antiqe dealers 1stdibs.com and will cost up to £5,000 pounds for a print.


    Miss Hackett said: ‘Andy had an artist’s eye and everything that he did he applied it to.


    ‘He would see odd things that he would photograph, his skill was deciding what you want to photograph. Photography was something the next phase of his art career and was something that Andy was progressing with much more.


    ‘I am selling these photos now because Andy died before he was able to present them to a wider public. They haven’t been given the attention that Andy would have expected.


    Debbie Harry of Blondie. Many of the pictures were taken at Warhol


    Debbie Harry of Blondie. Many of the pictures were taken at Warhol’s New York studio



    Gimme Shelter: The Rolling Stones


    Gimme Shelter: The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood. The prints are expected to sell for around £5,000 each



    American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer Lou Reed, best known for his work with The Velvet Underground, and artist Ronnie Cutrone


    American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer Lou Reed, best known for his work with The Velvet Underground, and artist Ronnie Cutrone


    Human rights advocate and former actress Bianca Jagger. She met Mick Jagger at a party after a Rolling Stones concert in France in September 1970 and married him a year later


    Human rights advocate and former actress Bianca Jagger. She met Mick Jagger at a party after a Rolling Stones concert in France in September 1970 and married him a year later


    Cabaret star Liza Minelli and a sculptor and stage manager Mark Gero, who she married in 1979 before divorcing 13 years later in 1992


    Cabaret star Liza Minelli and a sculptor and stage manager Mark Gero, who she married in 1979 before divorcing 13 years later in 1992




    ‘When his life was cut short that awareness of his photography was cut short, too.’


    The silver gelatin prints were taken on a 35mm negatives films between 1976 to 1987.


    Some of the prints being sold are owned by Warhol collector Jim Hedges, 45.


    Mr Hodges said: ‘Warhol obsessively photographed different subjects. That was part of the genius of Andy Warhol.


    ‘He conveyed in his art the highest of the highs, like show business people, and the lowest of the lows, like a urinal. This is fresh material and gives a new light on Andy Warhol’s work.’


    The exhibition will open at the New York Design Center from September 3.


    Andy Warhol eating a giant bowl of Corn Flakes at The Factory


    Liberace enjoys a cigarette and a coffee


    Andy Warhol eating a giant bowl of Corn Flakes at The Factory (left). Musician Liberace enjoys a cigarette and a coffee (right)



    Auteur: A self-portrait of Andy Warhol in drag and a strange photograph of a urinal


    Auteur: A self-portrait of Andy Warhol in drag and a strange photograph of urinals


    Auteur: A self-portrait of Andy Warhol in drag and a strange photograph of urinals







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    Love the pic of Sting Debbie Harry. Now I remember why I fell in love w/Sting when I was 16 yrs old!



    slickchrissy

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    28/8/2013 02:20


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    Oh my, Mick Jagger was so sexy, hot and gorgeous as was his first wife Bianca!



    Clarice

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    28/8/2013 00:42


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    Ronnie Wood just looks happy to be a “Rolling Stone”. As a full fledged member, he should be! An integral part of The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Rock on Ronnie!



    Kirk Boand

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    28/8/2013 00:00


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    And to think that if all these famous people dropped off the face of the earth, the world would go on perfectly well. But if scientists and regular craftsmen dropped away…well now….hmmmmmm…..skewed values perhaps?



    briton

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    27/8/2013 23:17


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    Sting looks like a young don, or Wall St. business executive. DM, the urinals are far from strange — think Marcel Duchamp! Duh.



    azindn

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    Arizona, United States,

    27/8/2013 20:38


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    The photograph of the urinals is a relevant as his Campbell’s Soup cans. The most overrated “artist” of all time.



    TruthHurts

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    Pittsburgh, United States,

    27/8/2013 20:24


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    Yawn, I could have taken better.



    girlinagreenjumper

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    27/8/2013 19:42


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    Bianca Jagger and Debbie Harry look so good….classy ladies.



    John C

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    27/8/2013 16:31


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    Boring, run-of-the-mill snapshots with no ‘artistic’ merit to speak of. Supposedly taken by ‘artist’ Warhol, therefore somehow ‘valuable’. Gullibility is alive and well!



    John23

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    27/8/2013 15:49


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    Some very nice photos. Debbie Harry=GORGEOUS (as always)! Liza Minelli looks human and cute. Bianca looks stunning. Sting actually was very cute. Madonna ALMOST looks demure and sweet.



    CutieButCranky

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    27/8/2013 15:24


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