Starting in the 1960s, Andy Warhol did commissioned portraits. He took Polaroids which he then transferred onto a silkscreen. Around 1975, he returned to this commercial project and outlined over sixty pairs of lips to reproduce them on silkscreens and collate them into three albums. The Danziger Gallery in New York is showcasing for the first time a selection of the Lips series outside the books original context , but it does so without any further explanation. The silkscreens are displayed as a set excerpted, with no apparent rhyme or reason, from the three editions assembled by Warhol. All the pieces are unique and individually framed.
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