Item Details:

ANDY WARHOL DURING THE GERMAN TOUR FOR BLUE MOVIE

LEO WEISS (1911-2000)

LATE MID-CENTURY MODERN, 1969

Original Photograph

Edition: unknown

Publisher: unknown

Spur-of-the-moment clever risque pose by Warhol captured for posterity in the blink of an eye. Translation from the German on verso of photo: Andy Warhol - the pale and modest pop czar from New York. Our photographer Leo Weisse shot it. Took this picture of a true Warhol tour through the Federal Republic last year. In mid-February we see a film in our cinemas for the first time, which Warhol himself made, Blue Movie. The film unfolded in front of us one afternoon in a New York apartment. Viva and Louis a young couple talk to each other, they don't simulate sex like in the usual sex films, they cook, take a shower and then the afternoon is over just like the film in Andy's camera (which he also operated). Blue Movie has overcome the hurdles of the FSK after feuds; in doing so, the FSK has also skipped over its own, ever-shortening shadow because love in real practice didn't exist before (at least on a cinema screen). Photo: Weisse/Constantin/tp.

Size: 9.6 x 7.3 in; 24.4x 18.4 cm

Signed: unsigned

Provenance: Aquired from Artprecium Photographies de Cinéma pour Tous Auction

Private Collection, New York City