Andy Warhol Sachiko (F & S II.154) For Sale

Sachiko is a series of two screenprints created by the artist in 1977 of real estate broker and museum trustee Sachiko Goodman. The portrait depicts a refashioned photograph of Sachiko in electric colours which segment the image into four. The originally monochrome photograph draws attention to the darkness of Sachiko’s hair and eyes.  

This work can be seen as part of a larger corpus of Warhol’s practice in the seventies whereby his portraits where inextricably tied to prominent social figures of the time who would approach the artist. During this period, Warhol did around fifty to a hundred privately commissioned portraits a year. Wayne Koestenbaum likened his productivity of the time to ‘a mixture of Picasso and Henry Ford’. Seen in this example the artist combines the vivacity of his Pop style with the mechanised and now-commercialised process of screenprinting.  In the 1970’s and 1980’s Warhol would shift his focus and begin to undertake more commissions for wealthy clients. His exploration of Sachiko can be framed within the context of his use of collage effects that can also be found in other works from this period such as Marcia Weissman, Federick Weissman and Ladies and Gentlemen, Explore Andy Warhol prints for sale.