In London for the first time put five portraits of Warhol Bardot

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in London for the first time put five portraits of Warhol Bardot

Gagosian Gallery in London October 10 an exhibition of portraits of French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot work of American artist Andy Warhol. As noted by The ArtDaily, represented five of the portraits have never before been exhibited, and not combined into one series.

Warhol first met with Bardot in 1967 at the Cannes Film Festival, where the artist was trying to show his film "Girls from Chelsea." In 1973, Bardot announced that ends film career, and just at this time, Warhol was commissioned to make her first portrait. Meanwhile, Warhol himself in 1973, was distracted from the movie and switched back to painting.

Portraits Bardot made in the same technique, which the artist used to create portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor - with the help of screen-printing. The basis of portraits Bardot went to photograph the actress made Richard Avedon in 1959. In 2008, Avedon's pictures were sold at Christie's for 181,000 dollars.

Serial portraits of Warhol's most famous representative of the American pop art, also regularly put on auction. In 2010, for example, one of the portraits of Elizabeth Taylor in 1963 went to Christie's 10,17 million dollars.

Exhibition of portraits of Brigitte Bardot will run until November 12.

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