Self-Portrait

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Self-Portrait

signed and numbered (on the reverse)

offset lithograph on silver coated paper

23 x 23 inches (58.4 x 58.4 cm)

Executed in 1966. This work is from an edition of 300.

Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above by the present owner

LITERATURE:

Feldman & Schellmann II.16

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 Self-Portrait (1966) is among the earliest and most significant examples of his lifelong interrogation of identity, image, and self-mythologizing. Using photographic source material and the silkscreen process, Warhol presents himself as both subject and surface, flattening personal identity into a reproducible icon. Created at the height of the Factory era, the work underscores Warhol’s radical transformation of the artist into a carefully constructed public persona.