![Andy Warhol - Liz #1 (Early Coloured Liz) [1963] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3796/11168933826_f2147e1c72.jpg)
Andy Warhol’s magnificent image, executed between October and November 1963, is one of a rare series of Elizabeth Taylor produced by the master of Pop Art on coloured backgrounds. This series of jewel-toned portrait paintings represents the apotheosis of Warhol’s ground-breaking creative vision, both as the technician of the (still then) revolutionary silkscreen process and the architect of iconic visual treatises on the modern vagaries of celebrity. This luminous portrait not only captures the ironically dark essence of Twentieth Century glamour and fame, it also speaks of a time of growing fame for Warhol himself.
[Sold for US $20,325,000 at Sotheby’s, New York - Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 101.6 x 101.6 cm]