Warhol’s Wide World at Grand Palais
http://www.ivyparisnews.com/2009/03/warhols-wide-world-at-grand-palais.html
March 18 through July 13, 2009
Andy Warhol comes to Paris in a major exhibition of his trademark society portraits
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/showbiz/2009-03/18/content_7591090.htm
PARIS- Andy Warhol comes to Paris in a major exhibition of his trademark society portraits but a famous image of Yves Saint Laurent will be missing after a dispute over whether the late couturier was an artist or a mere designer.
"Warhol's Wide World," which opens this week, presents some 140 of the 1,000 or so portraits of actors, stars and assorted jet set personalities turned out by the "Pope of Pop" from the 1960s until his death in 1987.
Based on existing photographs or created with a specially designed Polaroid camera, Warhol's garishly tinted pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy or Saint Laurent became icons in the modern cult of celebrity.
Along with his Campbell's Soup can, they are some of the best-known images in modern art and the exhibition is expected to be one of the biggest of the year.
Warhol once remarked that he wanted all his portraits to fit together and make one big painting called "Portraits of Society" and exhibition curator Alain Cueff regretted that it had not been practical to do so.
"It would be wonderful to recreate the dream of Warhol, to have 1,000 portraits of people just like that but it was quite impossible, I'm afraid," he said.
Even so, the Grand Palais, a vast hall created for the Great Exhibition of 1900, has been lined with some of the most famous faces of the era, from stars like Monroe or Mick Jagger to artists like Man Ray or fashion designers like Giorgio Armani.
Présentation de l’expo Warhol
http://www.rmn.fr/Presentation-de-l-expo-Warhol
En 1962, Andy Warhol peint les portraits de Marilyn Monroe, de sa rivale Liz Taylor, réinterprète La Joconde et Elvis Presley. A partir de 1967 et jusqu’à sa mort en 1987, il réalise, sur commande, les portraits de dizaines de personnalités diverses, célèbres ou inconnues, offrant à un monde fasciné par les apparences un miroir flatteur et vertigineux. Il remettait ainsi à l’honneur un genre négligé, en y appliquant de nouveaux codes qui marqueront très profondément l’histoire du portrait.
Aux côtés de stars du cinéma et de la musique (Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda, Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone), on trouve aussi des portraits d’artistes (Man Ray, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Keith Haring), de collectionneurs et de marchands (Dominique de Ménil, Bruno Bischofberger, Ileana Sonnabend, Leo Castelli), d’hommes politiques (Willy Brandt, Edward Kennedy), de couturiers (Yves Saint-Laurent, Sonia Rykiel, Hélène Rochas), de personnalités de la jet-set (Gianni Agnelli, Lee Radziwill, la princesse de Monaco, Gunther Sachs) connus ou moins connus, tous y gagnent un peu de cette aura que procure le génie de Warhol.
Warhol's "Wide World" hits Paris
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Mar. 18 - The exhibition "Wide World" at Paris Grand Palais is already shaping up as one of the biggest art events this year. Cindy Martin reports
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Warhol Collector Asks Judge to Let Him Question Aging Witnesses
www.myandywarhol.eu/my/look_evidence.asp
By Linda Sandler
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- An owner of an Andy Warhol self- portrait asked a New York judge to let him question witnesses in his $120 million lawsuit against the late artist’s foundation because “a number” of them have died or are becoming infirm.
Joe Simon, the portrait’s owner, was told by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts that his painting was a fake. He alleged in a 2007 lawsuit that the foundation was running “a 20-year scheme” to control prices in the market for Warhol pictures, according to a filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
More than two witnesses have died since then while five are “elderly or in bad health,” Simon-Whelan, a London-based filmmaker, said in a letter obtained by Bloomberg News that was faxed to the judge yesterday. In the note, he asked Judge Laura Swain to lift her January 2008 order postponing sworn interrogations before trial.
“Many of the people involved in the creation of this picture in the mid-1960s are now in their seventies or beyond and we need to depose them,” Brian Kerr, a lawyer for Simon- Whelan at Browne Woods George LLP, said in a phone interview today. The letter was “an informal request to the judge for a conference on the matter,” he said.
Simon-Whelan, a London-based filmmaker, bought the Warhol portrait for $195,000 in 1989, one of several made in 1965 under Warhol’s direction at his so-called art factory in New York and judged genuine by the foundation, according to court papers.
Twice Denied
It was twice stamped “Denied,” or fake, in 2002 and 2003 when he resubmitted it before trying to sell it for an anticipated $2 million, the filing said. Buyers of Warhol pictures often ask sellers to have his pictures authenticated, dealers said.
Warhol, who died in 1987, produced images of cult figures such as Marilyn Monroe that are owned by collectors from hedge- fund manager Steven Cohen to London jeweler Laurence Graff. Lawsuits and complaints about the artist’s foundation, which decides if pictures are genuine, mounted as prices rose in the past two decades, said Garry Sesser, a lawyer for the foundation with Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP.
The judge originally postponed pre-trial evidence gathering until she could decide on the foundation’s motion to dismiss the suit, Sesser said. The foundation will write to the judge this week opposing Simon-Whelan’s request to speed the process, he said.
The case is Simon v. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., 07-CV-6423, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
To contact the reporter on this story: Linda Sandler in New York at lsandler@bloomberg.net.
http://www.myandywarhol.eu/my/look_evidence.asp
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