WARHOL PORTRAITS

This book grew out of an exhibition that was organized by the Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, in 2005. With the show, Shafrazi paid homage to a seminal display of Warhol's portraits that took place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in 1979-80. Titl ed Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 1970s, the Whitney exhibition presented for the first time a large array of the commissioned portra its that the artist began in the early 1970s as a way to offset the cost of multiplying activities at the Factory.