Andy Warhol Ladies and Gentlemen (F & S II.134) For Sale

Ladies and Gentlemen was a portfolio was created in 1975 by the Pop Artist Andy Warhol. Known for depicting the starlets of the day, the subject matter of Ladies and Gentlemen offers a quietly radical departure from Warhol’s previous portfolios. The portfolio raises questions about gender and identity, as well as other socio-political issues such as race and gender. Despite the advancements of sexual liberation and the gay rights movement throughout the 1970s, the subject matter remained somewhat of a taboo to a 1970s audience.

This screenprint depicts an anonymous woman. When commissioning the portfolio, Luciano Anselmino wanted a collection of ‘impersonal’ and ‘anonymous’ photographs of ‘transvestites’. Warhol sent his teams to the Gilded Grape, a local haut for the transgender and drag community. Warhol photographed the women at his studio, taking over 500 polaroids of 14 sitters, offering them fifty dollars in return. However, the anonymity of the sitters was maintained until 2014, when the Warhol Foundation released the names of 13/14 of the sitters that they were able to identify, as some wrote their names on the polaroids of them. This sitter has been identified as Vicki Peters, however little is known about her aside from her signature identifying her on  the back of a polaroid. She is depicted in a less realistic, more graphic style than the rest of the portfolio. Her head rests on her hand as she gazes off into the distance. As with the rest of the series, blocks of colour are transposed over sections, each to act as a marker of femininity. For example, in this screenprint, a block of pink is layered over her lips to replicate lipstick.  

Through this series, Warhol departed from the original aim of ‘anonymous’ sitters, instead capturing their spirit, glamour and presence within each screenprint. Through Warhol’s hand, his drag queen muses are as regal as the real royalty in his Reigning Queens portfolio. Warhol handled his sitters with equal elegance and decorum, transforming these trailblazing queens into Pop Art icons.

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