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Bianca Jagger Andy Warhol 1972 Mao Screenprint 38"x38"
This listing is for an Andy Warhol Mao Zedong screenprint bought on eBay by Bianca Jagger for the Shelburne Museum's "Got eBay? Celebrity Collections Created Online" exhibit. This print was displayed in the Old Round Barn at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont from May 20 to October 28, 2007. This piece was originally created in 1972 as one of a number of Warhol Mao prints. It features the Chinese leader with a pink jacket, yellow background and yellow eyes. It measures 38" inches tall and 38" inches wide, and is printed on heavy poster paper. This print will be rolled and shipped in a tube for protection.
From Wikipedia:
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928? - February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who was a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, an avant-garde filmmaker, a record producer, an author, and a public figure known for his presence in wildly diverse social circles that included bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy aristocrats. A controversial figure during his lifetime (his work was often derided by critics as a hoax or "put-on"), Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books and documentary films since his death in 1987. He is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
Mao Zedong: Mao Tse-tung; (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) was a Chinese military and political leader, who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, Mao is still a controversial figure today, over thirty years after his death. He is held in high regard in China where he is often portrayed as a great revolutionary and strategist who eventually defeated Chiang Kai-shek in the Chinese Civil War, and transformed the country into a major power through his policies. However, many of Mao's socio-political programs such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are blamed by critics from both within and outside China for causing severe damage to the culture, society, economy and foreign relations of China, as well as enormous and unnecessary loss of lives, a peacetime death toll in the tens of millions.
From the who2 website:
Bianca Jagger (May 2, 1945), born Bianca Perez Morena De Macias, was the first wife of Rolling Stones star Mick Jagger. The couple were married in 1971 and Bianca became a prominent jet-set celebrity of the 1970s, known particularly as a chum of artist Andy Warhol and a frequent patron of the Manhattan nightclub Studio 54. She and Jagger divorced in 1979, but she remained a celebrity and dabbled in acting, with a small role in the Burt Reynolds film Cannonball Run and a guest appearance on the TV show Miami Vice. In the 1990s she emerged as a social activist, campaigning for the environment and speaking for the human rights group Amnesty International. |