Diana Vreeland Rampant (after Jacques Louis David, Napoleon at St. Bernard)

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Diana Vreeland Rampant (after Jacques Louis David, Napoleon at St. Bernard)

stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., and numbered '114.115' (on the reverse)

screenprint and colored art paper collage on paper

38 1/4 x 25 inches (97.2 x 63.5 cm)

framed: 44 1/2 x 31 1/25 inches (113 x 78.8 cm)

Executed in 1984.

PROVENANCE:

Andy Warhol Foundation

Private collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner

NOTES:

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987) emerged as a pioneering figure at the forefront of the 1960s Pop Art movement. His vivid silkscreens of Campbell’s Soup Cans, Marilyn Monroe, and other commercial icons blurred the lines between fine art, mass production and advertising. Working across film, photography, painting and printmaking, Warhol upended traditional notions of authorship and elevated the artist to celebrity status. His Factory studio became an incubator for artistic innovation, and his incisive critique of consumerism and fame continues to shape contemporary art and popular culture today.

In Diana Vreeland Rampant, Warhol reimagines Diana Vreeland through the lens of Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon at St. Bernard, recasting the legendary fashion editor as a figure of authority and mythic stature. By substituting a fashion icon for a military hero, Warhol collapses the hierarchies of power, fame, and history, equating cultural influence with political dominance. The work exemplifies Warhol’s late-career fascination with style-makers as modern rulers, elevating Vreeland to an emblem of creative command and spectacle.