Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, rue de Castiglione, Paris, June 1–August 31, 2023

Installation Views

Installation view. Artwork © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes — Installation view
Artwork © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Installation view with Andy Warhol, Silver Liz [Studio Type] (1963). Artwork © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes — Installation view with Andy Warhol, *Silver Liz [Studio Type]* (1963)
Artwork © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Thumbnail - Installation view. Artwork © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Thumbnail - Installation view with Andy Warhol, Silver Liz [Studio Type] (1963). Artwork © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Works Exhibited

Andy Warhol, Silver Liz [Studio Type], 1963. Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 cm) © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Andy Warhol
*Silver Liz [Studio Type]*, 1963
Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 cm)
© 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Andy Warhol, Ethel Scull, 1963. Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 83 ¼ × 134 ½ inches (211.5 × 341.6 cm) © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Andy Warhol
*Ethel Scull*, 1963
Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 83 ¼ × 134 ½ inches (211.5 × 341.6 cm)
© 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Andy Warhol, Tunafish Disaster, 1963. Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen, 41 × 22 inches (104.1 × 55.9 cm) © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Andy Warhol
*Tunafish Disaster*, 1963
Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen, 41 × 22 inches (104.1 × 55.9 cm)
© 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Andy Warhol, Silver Liz [Studio Type], 1963. Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 40 × 40 inches (101.6 × 101.6 cm) © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Andy Warhol, Ethel Scull, 1963. Silkscreen ink and spray paint on linen, 83 ¼ × 134 ½ inches (211.5 × 341.6 cm) © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Andy Warhol, Tunafish Disaster, 1963. Silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen, 41 × 22 inches (104.1 × 55.9 cm) © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

About

It was the perfect time to think silver. Silver was the future, it was spacey—the astronauts wore silver suits. And silver was also the past—the Silver Screen—Hollywood actresses photographed in silver sets. And maybe more than anything, silver was narcissism—mirrors were backed with silver.
—Andy Warhol

Gagosian is pleased to announce Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, an exhibition of three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963, organized for the gallery by Jessica Beck, formerly of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.

Sixty years ago, in the summer of 1963, Warhol was thinking as both painter and filmmaker, producing silkscreened canvases with multiple images. This was when he received his first camera (a 16mm Bolex that he later used for the Screen Tests, cinematic portraits of friends and “superstars”) and his paintings began to mirror the repetitions of filmstrips. At the same time, Warhol worked in a leaky former firehouse on the Upper East Side, eventually hiring poet Gerard Malanga to complete some of his most significant early silkscreened paintings, Disasters, Silver Elvis, and Silver Liz. A year later, Warhol moved to a larger space on East 47th Street. There, lighting designer turned assistant and photographer Billy Name lined the interior in foil and spray paint, creating a reflective environment for happenings, performances, films, and art production. The Silver Factory was born.

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