Silkscreen in colors over paper collage.
Cf. for the silkscreen Feldman/Schellmann/Defendi II.312. With the estate stamp and the stamp of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on the reverse, as well as with the number "80.015" and the inscription "VF". 87 x 61.5 cm.
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• Unique object.
• Warhol expands the screen printing technique by the experimental collage, which gives the work a deliberately artistic character.
• Andy Warhol is obsessed with Polaroids - this motif is also based on a private photo.
• The sitters are Jay Shriver, Warhol's assistant at the time, and the artist's personal trainer, Lydia Cengic.
• One of his main themes is the sexually charged character of many consumer products, which is reflected in the smooth aesthetics of his works, in celebrity portraits, but also in series with provocative erotic depictions.

From the artist's estate. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York

"You should only fall in love with your eyes closed. Close your eyes. Don't look." (Andy Warhol: The philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and back, Frankfurt a. Main 2006, p. 51) This tender and romantic statement on the subject of love does not initially seem to come from an artist who in 1977/78 had a portfolio with entitled "Sex Parts", which moved between art and pornography. And yet, Andy Warhol also has this completely different view, as the series "Love", created only a few years later, shows. The silkscreen prints show a nude couple in a series of tender embraces. The sequence of images seems to imply a narrative, as if each image represents a different intimate movement. Our present sheet is characterized by its unique character, the artist expands his initially serially produced prints by an experimental collage. This gives the work a deliberately artistic character that sets it apart from his earlier silkscreen prints, where the mechanical, impersonal print quality was an important part of the message. [CE]

In good condition. Fixated on mount in places of upper margin. With slight handling marks. Corners with smoothed kinks. Lower sheet with mended margin, presumably executed while still in the studio.