Mick Jagger in Japan Poster

This poster incorporates a portrait print of Mick Jagger by Warhol to advertise a series of concerts he played in Japan in 1988. Warhol particularly liked Jagger’s photogenic, ‘bad-boy’ image and this illustration was part of a portfolio of ten screenprints of the star originally produced in 1975.

Warhol has incorporated irregularly shaped blocks of color, which, although printed, appear like collaged fragments of coloured paper. In combining this with hand-drawn elements (also printed), the work appears more expressive than his earlier screenprints. The abstract quality of the blocks of colour shows the development of Warhol’s interest in more non-representational art that was emerging in the 1970s. This poster dates from 1988, a year after Warhol died.

This poster is stamped by the Estate of Andy Warhol on verso.