ANDY WARHOL 

  "LADIES & GENTLEMEN FS II.130"

  SCREENPRINT ON ARCHES PAPER 

  SHEET SIZE: 43.33 X 28.5 INCHES 

  EDITION: OF 125

  YEAR: 1975 

  SIGNATURE: HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED ON VERSO BY THE ARTIST 

  CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY INCLUDED

ARTWORK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

The Ladies and Gentlemen series is comprised of portraits of cross-dressers from a New York City night club called The Gilded Grape. Warhol took the cross-dressers’ portrait with a Polaroid Big Shot camera and then transferred the image onto silk screen. This was the same process he used on celebrities and other famous figures. Warhol told the cross-dressers to dress and pose however they wished. None of the subjects are famous but Warhol brings out the style and glamour in each portrait. The inspiration for the series came from L. Anselmino, protege of the art dealer, Alexander Iolas. Anselmino suggested the idea to Warhol after he had commissioned him to create one hundred prints of the Man Ray portrait.the figure’s long feminine eyelashes and pouty lips, the color in the figure’s face outlines the masculine jawline and beard that the figure possesses as well.