ANDY WARHOL (1928 - 1987), AFTER JACQUELINE KENNEDY I (JACKIE I)

stamped: ‘AW Authorized by Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ and ‘The Estate of Andy Warhol’, inscribed and numbered ‘0225 05.001’ (on the reverse) screenprint in silver on wove paper image: 50 x 41.5 cm circa sheet: 56 x 47 cm (à vue) executed in 1966 Provenance: Private collection, USA The serigraph is based on a ‘Life’ press image of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on the 6th December 1963. Warhol chooses a symbolic picture of Jacqueline Kennedy, just before she was widowed. He cut the image around the face and created an abstract representation by eliminating any element surrounding the scene and by painting the surface with metallic ink, making it perfectly flat. This work was realized in 1965 and published in 1966. Andy Warhol collaborated with Gerard Malanga for this work: Malanga did a screen test with a different screen-printing machine from the one Warhol used to make his silkscreen prints on canvas, as can be seen from the difference in them. Gerard Malanga (B. 1943), an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor and curator, worked closely with Andy Warhol during Warhol’s most creative period, from 1963 to 1970.