Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Property from the Estate of Charles H. Carpenter, Jr.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Jackie

細節
Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Jackie
spray enamel and silkscreen ink on linen
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted in 1964.
來源
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965
出版
G. Frei and N. Printz, eds., The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné: Paintings and Sculptures 1964-1969, vol. 02A, New York, 2004, p. 193, no. 1116 (illustrated in color).
展覽
Providence, The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, 1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, January-May 1988.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art and New York, Charles H. Carpenter Jr.: The Odyssey of a Collector, March-June 1996, p. 79 (illustrated in color).
Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New, September-December 2002.

拍品專文

A practical man of science and a businessman, Charles Carpenter never let his fondness for art separate him from events of history and the demands of the everyday working world. Perhaps this is why he responded so strongly to the early works of Andy Warhol. Carpenter sensed their pinpoint placement in time and their power to convey tragedy, crass commercialism, high humor and intellectual gamesmanship.
On a visit to the Leo Castelli Gallery in 1964, Carpenter purchased the elegiac portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy in mourning. It is a history painting of the highest order. It has the ability to return anyone then alive to the place and time of our national tragedy. The photographs of that week burned themselves into our consciousness and traveled the world over. Amidst mourning and shock, Warhol focused upon Jacqueline Kennedy's glamour underscored and intensified by a nation's pain. Choosing such a painting, just months after the tragedy, reveals Charles Carpenter's deeply serious nature and his sense of history.
-Susan C. Larsen, Ph.D.