Art

Edition of 125. Signed, numbered and dated '75 in pencil lower left to verso by Warhol. From the portfolio of ten screenprints. To create the Ladies and Gentlemen series, Warhol took over 500 Polaroid photographs of 14 different Black and Latinx drag queens and trans-women recruited by his friends, many were from the Gilded Grape, a bar on Manhattan's 8th Avenue. The names discovered by the Warhol Foundation in 2014 are an official list of 13 of the 14 models: Alphanso Panell, Broadway, Easha McCleary, Helen/Harry Morales, Iris, Ivette, Kim, Lurdes, Marsha P. Johnson, Michele Long, Monique, Vicki Peters and Wilhelmina Ross. Screenprint on Arches paper. Sheet size 111 x 73.5 cm. Framed size: 126.3 x 95.9 cm. Remants of tape removed from verso otherwise in excellent condition. Presented in a handmade gold leaf frame with conservation acrylic glazing.