Karen Kain captivated Warhol just as she did audiences in Moscow, Paris, London and Vienna during her quarter century-long career as a principal ballet dancer. The artist created paintings after her image, in addition to this multicolored screenprint. The graceful lines of Kain's hands and face glitter with diamond dust against a geometric backdrop of tangerine, purple and sea foam green. Although Kain admits in her autobiography that it took her many years to warm to her pop portrait, she came to appreciate Warhol's vision; her own copy now hangs in her dining room (Movement Never Lies, 140-41). Desirable for its contrasts, Karen Kain shows the confidence, classical beauty and bone-deep elegance of one of ballet's most accomplished dancers from a candy-colored point of view.

Inspired by a Polaroid photograph of Kain taken by Warhol, this original color screenprint was created in 1980. Numbered 185/200, this work was printed on Lenox Museum Board within the limited numbered edition; 30 artist's proofs, 5 printer's proofs, and 25 trial proofs also exist. This work is stamped in black on verso, H. P. Productions, Ltd. © Andy Warhol 1980. Hand-signed by Andy Warhol (Pennsylvania, 1928 - New York, 1987) in pencil at the lower right, this work is also hand-signed by Karen Kain (Ontario, 1951 - ) in pencil at the lower left.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
This work is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work).

1. Feldman, Frayda and Jörg Schellmann. Andy Warhol Prints: a catalogue raisonné 1962-1987. 4th ed. Listed and illustrated as catalogue raisonné II.236 on p. 114; further discussed on pp. 181 & 217.

2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this work.

About the Framing:
This work is framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, presented in a complimentary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.