Untitled, Andy Warhol ( 1928-1987, USA)
Photographs, machine-sewn, 1987
"This patchwork of photographs appeared in a special edition of the magazine Parkett in 1987, the same year as Warhol's death. Writing in the issue, Glen O'Brien, a former member of Warhol's studio the Factory, observed "Andy was what a sports fan call a most valuable player. His works are more valuable now, but not because he's not around himself. Those works are souvenirs and relics. They're pieces of Andy.
Warhol's interested in mortality was perhaps informed by his own brush with death: in 1968 he survived being shot in the chest three times in the chest by Valerie Solanas.
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