テート・ギャラリーのインスタグラム(tate) - 7月17日 01時46分

In 1975 #AndyWarhol produced a painting series featuring anonymous Black and Latinx drag queens and trans women. Italian art dealer Luciano Anselmino commissioned the pictures with the theatrical title 'Ladies and Gentlemen'. This title implies Anselmino was less concerned with the lived experience of the models and more interested in the dramatisation of gender. The subjects were recruited via Warhol’s friends and from local drag bars and posed for a fee.⁣
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Warhol took over 500 photographs of 14 models—seven of whom feature across 25 paintings in the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern. The resulting series deviated from the original proposal in favour of an exploration of performance, glamour and personality. Warhol used expressive brushmarks and finger painting to playfully explore the relationship between the silkscreen layer and the painted background.⁣
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'Ladies and Gentlemen' includes Marsha ‘Pay it no mind’ Johnson who was present at the Stonewall Uprising that ushered in the gay and trans rights movements, and Wilhelmina Ross, who appears to have been Warhol’s favourite model. He made 73 paintings, based on seven Polaroids, 29 drawings, and five collage portraits of Ross. He also created five giant 10-foot canvases of her. Ross was born Douglas Mitchell Hunter in Kansas City, Missouri, moving to New York in 1970. Her name was a mix of the model agency Wilhelmina and Warhol’s close friend Diana Ross. After Jimmy Camicia saw her in an off-off Broadway production, where she was pretending to be a cockroach, he asked her to join his drag theatre company. She soon became a leading star and worked with them around the time Warhol made her portrait. At the end of 1974 Ross moved to Puerto Rico in 1974, where she lived for ten years. When she learned she had AIDS, she returned home to her mother where she was nursed for the last two years of her life.⁣
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​Andy Warhol, Ladies and Gentlemen (Wilhelmina Ross) 1975 Italian Private Collection © 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London.

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