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The source for Andy Warhol's portrait was the famous painting from Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein from 1787. The classicist work is a life-size depiction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe resting on a ruin in the Roman countryside. In Warhol's interpretation of the painting, the focus is on Goethe's head, his large hat, reminiscent of a halo, and mapped in the artist's typical colour scheme. Goethe himself addressed the psychological impact of colour, and here becomes a vehicle of his own theory.
[Auktionshaus Lempertz, Cologne - Colour silkscreen on Lenox museum board, 96.5 x 96.5 cm]
