Unique trial proof 15 of 30, aside from the edition of 250, with 20 artist’s proofs, five printer’s proofs and 30 hors commerce impressions. From the portfolio of three screenprints. Signed and numbered in pencil and authenticated and stamped verso by the Andy Warhol Authentication Board, with its unique archive registration number.

Created in 1983, Ingrid Bergman with Hat is the final image in Andy Warhol’s three-part Ingrid Bergman portfolio, commissioned and published by Galerie Börjeson in Malmö and printed by Rupert Jasen Smith in New York. The series was conceived as a tribute to the Swedish actress and presents her through three distinct public identities: a formal publicity portrait in Herself, her role as Sister Mary Benedict in The Nun and her appearance as Ilsa Lund in With Hat.

Derived from a still taken from Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca of 1942, the composition presents Bergman turning towards the right beneath the broad diagonal of her hat. In this trial-proof colourway, her pale face and blonde hair emerge against a deep black ground, accompanied by a grey hat, purple clothing and sharply defined red lips. The restricted areas of vivid colour intensify the contrast between Bergman’s illuminated features and the surrounding darkness.

The designation TP 15/30 identifies this impression as one of 30 unique trial proofs produced during the development of the portfolio. Unlike impressions from the uniform edition, each trial proof employs an individual arrangement of colour, allowing the separation and overlap of the screenprinted layers to remain especially apparent. Here, the interaction of purple, grey, yellow and red reveals Warhol’s experimentation with tonal relationships while preserving the photographic structure of the source image.

Warhol had explored the construction of celebrity through portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley since the early 1960s. In Ingrid Bergman with Hat, he similarly separates a familiar face from its cinematic narrative and recasts it as an autonomous cultural image. The work therefore occupies a significant position within his late portraiture, combining the collective memory of classical Hollywood with the colouristic experimentation particular to his unique trial proofs.

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