Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger 144, 1975 is an alluring work from Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger portfolio that features the rock star with his head thrown back, looking at the viewer out of the corner of his eye. Warhol’s Mick Jagger 144 is black and white, a departure from his usual bright Pop Art color scheme. The subdued color scheme is coupled with Jagger’s provocative pose, creates a more serious, sultry mood. Even without outrageous colors, Jagger is larger than life and Warhol’s Mick Jagger 144 can barely contain the Rolling Stones frontman’s star power. Warhol’s Mick Jagger 144 is a striking work from Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger portfolio.

Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger portfolio was created in 1975, just over ten years after Warhol and Jagger’s first meeting in New York in 1964. This was not their first creative collaboration; the two became close when Warhol designed the album cover of the Rolling Stones’s Sticky Fingers in 1971. The Mick Jagger portfolio is comprised of 10 screenprints, each based off an expressive and evocative photograph Warhol took of Jagger. Warhol’s choice to combine photography, drawing, and color-blocking is provocative, draws on the emergence of non-representational and mixed media forms in the 1970s. At this point in his career, celebrities were shelling out $25,000 to get portraits in Warhol’s Pop Art style and Jagger’s fame was at its height. Capitalizing on this moment, Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger portfolio makes a strong statement about the commodification of their own fame.

Created in 1975, Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger 144 is a color screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (rough) paper, and is signed by the artist in pencil in the lower right. Most of the prints are also signed in black, green, or red by Mick Jagger. It is a unique work of an edition of 250, 50 AP, 3 PP, published by Seabird Editions, London England, and printed by Alexander Heinrici, New York.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Andy Warhol Mick Jagger 144, from Mick Jagger portfolio, 1975 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 sale of the work).

1. Feldman, Frayda and Jörg Schellmann. Andy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné 1962 – 1987, 4th Ed. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2003.
2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Andy Warhol Mick Jagger 144 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.