Ted Turner

ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Ted Turner

stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., inkstamps and numbered 'VF 115.328' (on the reverse)

screenprint and colored art paper collage on paper

31 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches (80 x 59.7 cm)

Executed circa 1986.

PROVENANCE:

Andy Warhol Foundation

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.

Warhol’s portrait of Ted Turner captures the media mogul as a defining figure of late 20th-century power and influence. By rendering Turner in bold color collage and flattened form, Warhol aligns him with the artist’s pantheon of celebrities whose authority derives not from politics or entertainment alone, but from control of images, information, and mass communication. The work reflects Warhol’s acute recognition of media as a new form of cultural capital.