Polaroids
“I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty,” Andy Warhol famously said—and the rise of instant Polaroid photography in the 1950s gave him endless opportunities to capture any beauty he encountered. From 1958 until his death in 1987, Warhol kept his SX-70 Polaroid close at hand, relentlessly documenting the muses in his artist studio The Factory, the characters he encountered around New York City, and the celebrities he met in Hollywood, California. Among the 20,000 Polaroids left behind are portraits of stars including Grace Jones, Jane Fonda, and Jack Nicholson, as well as fellow artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and David Hockney. Warhol’s Polaroids were instrumental in his process of creating his master silkscreen portraits and have garnered strong attention at auction, most notably his Self-Portrait (Eyes Closed), which fetched over $250,000 at Sotheby’s in 2010.
Series by this artist
- Campbell’s Soup Cans120 available
- Marilyn Monroe107 available
- Celebrity Portraits88 available
- Advertisements81 available
- Mick Jagger75 available
- Ladies and Gentlemen71 available
- Myths70 available
- Cowboys and Indians63 available
- Mao62 available
- Shoes61 available
- Death and Disaster44 available
- Dollar Sign43 available
- Electric Chairs41 available
- Endangered Species41 available
- Illustrations39 available
- Athletes37 available
- Sex Parts and Torsos35 available
- Jean-Michel Basquiat34 available
- Reigning Queens34 available
- Muhammad Ali27 available
- Martha Graham26 available
- Bananas25 available
- Space Fruit25 available
- Lenin23 available
- Dancers23 available
- Details of Renaissance Paintings23 available
- Tomato Soup22 available
- Camouflage22 available
- Hammer and Sickle22 available
- Mickey Mouse20 available
- Brillo Boxes19 available
- Letter to the World (The Kick)18 available
- Leonardo da Vinci18 available
- Halston17 available
- Committee 200016 available
- Joseph Beuys16 available
- Shadows15 available
- Jacqueline Kennedy15 available
- Saint Apollonia15 available
- Howdy Doody14 available
- Interview Magazine14 available
- After the Party14 available
- General Custer13 available
- Poinsettias13 available
- The Star12 available
- Wild Raspberries12 available
- Greta Garbo12 available
- Angels11 available
- Grace Jones11 available
- Dollar Bills11 available