Andy Warhol - Mick Jagger (FS II.145)
Artist: Andy Warhol
Year: 1975
Medium: Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (rough) Paper
Edition: Edition of 250, 50 AP, 3 PP, signed in pencil lower right and numbered in pencil lower left; some signed in felt pen. Most of the prints are also signed in black, green, or red felt pen by Mick Jagger.
Size: 43 1/2" x 29"
Original Mick Jagger Print by Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol‘s Mick Jagger 145 is one of ten famous screenprints from the artist’s Mick Jagger portfolio. Each print reveals a different angle of the Rolling Stones frontman, and incorporates solid abstract shapes to emphasize various features. The images in this series are based on polaroids that Warhol took of Mick Jagger in his house in Long Island, where Jagger and his wife were vacationing. Andy seemed to obsess over Jagger’s “bad boy” image. He was able to emphasize the rock star’s charms through these photos, in which we glimpse the multifaceted regions of Jagger’s personality.
Mick Jagger 145 focuses on the singer’s famous lips, along with his bare upper torso and neck, and is undeniably Pop. However, in this artwork, Warhol manifests a non-representational style which began emerging from his work in the 1970s, using blocks of color and pencil detailing to deliver a collage-like feel.
Warhol and Jagger met in 1964 at a party in New York during the Rolling Stones’ first US tour. Both parties had just begun their rise to fame. Warhol became great friends with Jagger’s wife, Bianca, as well, and even taught their daughter Jade how to paint. They became close friends and collaborated several times during their careers. Warhol understood Mick Jagger’s stylish image, declaring that he was “androgynous enough for almost anyone”.
