Mick Jagger

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Mick Jagger

signed and numbered (lower edge); signed by Mick Jagger (lower left)

screenprint on Arches Aquarelle paper

43 1/2 x 29 inches (110.5 x 73.7 cm)

framed: 49 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches (125.7 x 87.6 cm)

Executed in 1975. This work is from an edition of 250 plus 50 artist's proofs.

Published by Seabird Edition, London.

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Hawaii

Private collection, California

LITERATURE:

Feldman & Schellmann II.142

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.

Warhol’s Mick Jagger captures the Rolling Stones frontman at the height of his global celebrity. Using bold color, gestural line, and the silkscreen process, Warhol translates Jagger’s physicality and charisma into a dynamic Pop image that blurs the boundaries between portraiture, performance, and brand. The work exemplifies Warhol’s enduring fascination with musicians as modern icons, whose identities are shaped as much by image-making as by artistic output.