Andy WARHOL

Loti Smorgon
1981

Medium

oil and screenprint on canvas

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Ginny Green, Sandra Bardas OAM family, Vicki Vidor OAM and Bindy Koadlow in memory of their parents Loti Smorgon AO and Victor Smorgon AC through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2014
© Andy Warhol/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
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Gallery location: Not on display

About this work

Andy Warhol’s portrait of Loti Smorgon is a characteristically arresting doubleportrait of the prominent Australian art collector and patron. It is one of only a handful of portraits by Warhol of Australian subjects. In an interview with curator Deborah Hart, Smorgon recalled that Warhol took hundreds of Polaroids during her sitting and invited her to select those she liked best: ‘I said he shouldn’t make [the portrait] too pretty ... But he did the opposite. He did what he wanted and he seemed to see in me something that was quite serene. Looking back, it was a wonderful experience. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world’.

Artwork Details

Medium

oil and screenprint on canvas

Measurements

(a-b) 102.1 × 204.0 cm (overall)

Place/s of Execution

New York, New York, United States

Inscription

(a) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse loti smorgon
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse Andy Warhol 1981
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse nyc
(b) inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse loti smorgon
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse Andy Warhol 1981 nyc

Accession Number

2014.375.a-b

Department

Contemporary Art

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Ginny Green, Sandra Bardas OAM family, Vicki Vidor OAM and Bindy Koadlow in memory of their parents Loti Smorgon AO and Victor Smorgon AC through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2014
© Andy Warhol/ARS, New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited

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Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Portraits

Subjects (specific)

busts (general, figures) patrons (philanthropists) Smorgon, Loti stylisation three-quarter views women (female humans)

Movements

Pop (fine arts styles)

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Andy WARHOL

Loti Smorgon
1981