Other Warhols in the same room depict the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and the drag queen Wilhelmina Ross.ĭeath is evoked in the next gallery.
He reappears on the wall across - in the famous Avedon portrait of his scarred torso, taken in 1969, a year after he survived an assassination attempt.
Warhol lurks in the corner of the image, while his disciples, five of them nude, take center stage. Hanging on other walls are Warhol portraits of personalities from the period, including Mao Zedong and the shah of Iran with his wife and sister.Ī radically different family appears in the next room, in Avedon’s sprawling triptych “Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory” (1969).
Kennedy and his mother Rose Kennedy, and a young Donald Rumsfeld, a briefcase tucked under his arm. On the main wall is Avedon’s “The Family” from 1976, a group of 69 portraits of American establishment figures including President Gerald Ford, Senator Edward M. The first room of the exhibition plays on the theme of power. “So I don’t think we’re trying to force a relation between them, either historically or iconographically.” “It’s impossible to understand the visual world of today without either one of them,” Mr. Although their paths then diverged - Avedon shifting from fashion photography to portraiture and Warhol becoming a painter and filmmaker and a Pop Art stalwart - they moved in the same New York circles, often portraying the same people. Born five years apart in the 1920s to East European immigrant families, they got their starts in the New York fashion world, both working for Bonwit Teller and Harper’s Bazaar. The show, which runs through April 23, presents 33 Warhol silk-screens and 22 Avedon works (including a single series of 69 portraits) dating from the 1950s to the 1990s.Īt first glance, they form an awkward tandem, as towering figures in separate artistic disciplines.īut they had similar backgrounds and early career trajectories.
Whatever their animosities, Avedon and Warhol are being posthumously paired in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery here. I agreed and then everybody screamed at me that I do the same thing.” “She said he gets what he wants out of a person and then drops them. “We talked about how horrible Avedon is,” Warhol wrote. In an entry from December 1976, Warhol recalled running into a woman they both knew at a dinner party in New York. LONDON - If his diaries are any indication, Andy Warhol had little affection for Richard Avedon.
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