Andy Warhol

Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau
1984

Pop art portrait of a woman with dark hair, red lips, and blue eyeshadow, set against a plain background.

Pop art portrait of a woman with dark hair, red lips, and blue eyeshadow, set against a plain background.

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Date
1984

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Acrylic and screenprint on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 40 1/4 × 40 1/8 × 1 3/4in. (102.2 × 101.9 × 4.4 cm)

Accession number
2024.245

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Andy Warhol, Portrait of Emily Fisher Landau, 1984

In Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection

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Narrator: In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol began a series of commissioned portraits of the rich and famous. By the 1970s and 80s, these commissions were a vital, and lucrative, part of his practice. Warhol made this portrait of Emily Fisher Landau in 1984. He used his trademark method of making a color screen print from a Polaroid photograph. With its high contrast and bright flashes of color, the resulting image highlights certain features—lips, eye shadow, earrings, and hair—while downplaying others, such as skin tone. It transforms the sitter into a media celebrity in the style of Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley—stars that Warhol had previously captured in portraits using the same process.

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