Ladies and Gentlemen II.136 Screenprint, Pop Art, 1975, Signed Edition
By Andy Warhol
Located in London, GB
Andy Warhol Ladies and Gentlemen II.136 (Wilhelmina Ross), 1975 colour screenprint on Arches paper hand-signed and numbered on the back 110.7 x 73.3 cm Edition 110 of 125 Published by Luciano Anselmino, Milan, Italy. Printed by Alexander Heinrici, New York Wilhelmina Ross was a drag performer and model who became part of New York's underground performance scene in the 1970s. She was born Douglas Mitchell Hunter in Kansas City and moved to New York in 1970. She became known as Wilhelmina Ross and performed with Hot Peaches, the influential drag theatre company founded by Jimmy Camicia. Her stage name apparently combined Wilhelmina, the famous modelling agency, with Diana Ross, whom Warhol admired. In 1975, Warhol began his famous Ladies and Gentlemen series. The project focused on drag queens and trans women from New York's nightlife scene. Warhol's collaborators recruited performers from places such as the Gilded Grape, a nightclub frequented by New York's queer community. Warhol then photographed them at the Factory using Polaroid cameras...
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