Ladies and Gentlemen
In 1975, Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello strolled into The Gilded Grape, a dive nightclub in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen, with one question. He approached a group of glamorous drag queens, asking them if they’d be willing to model for “a friend” for $50. That friend happened to be Andy Warhol, who later photographed the queens just like any of his other iconic muses—at a three-fourths angle with his Polaroid camera. Of these Polaroids, Warhol chose 10 photographs for his silkscreen series “Ladies and Gentlemen,” which portray the queens as confident, coy, and vulnerable. Fascinated by the queens’ exhibitionism and meticulous grooming, Warhol once mused, “They do all the things: They think about shaving and not shaving, of primping and not primping, of buying men’s clothes and women’s clothes. I guess it’s interesting to try to be another sex.”
Series by this artist
- Campbell’s Soup Cans119 available
- Marilyn Monroe105 available
- Celebrity Portraits96 available
- Advertisements81 available
- Mick Jagger76 available
- Polaroids74 available
- Myths70 available
- Cowboys and Indians63 available
- Mao62 available
- Shoes61 available
- Death and Disaster44 available
- Dollar Sign43 available
- Endangered Species42 available
- Electric Chairs41 available
- Illustrations39 available
- Athletes37 available
- Reigning Queens35 available
- Sex Parts and Torsos35 available
- Jean-Michel Basquiat34 available
- Muhammad Ali27 available
- Martha Graham26 available
- Bananas25 available
- Space Fruit25 available
- Details of Renaissance Paintings24 available
- Camouflage23 available
- Dancers23 available
- Lenin23 available
- Tomato Soup22 available
- Hammer and Sickle22 available
- Mickey Mouse20 available
- Brillo Boxes19 available
- Letter to the World (The Kick)18 available
- Halston17 available
- Leonardo da Vinci17 available
- Joseph Beuys16 available
- Committee 200016 available
- Shadows15 available
- Saint Apollonia15 available
- Jacqueline Kennedy15 available
- Interview Magazine14 available
- Howdy Doody14 available
- After the Party14 available
- General Custer13 available
- Poinsettias13 available
- Wild Raspberries12 available
- The Star12 available
- Greta Garbo12 available
- Blackglama11 available
- Ingrid Bergman11 available
- Querelle11 available