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Goethe

Artist Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987)
Title Goethe
Date 1982
Medium Color silkscreen on paperboard
Dimensions Image: 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Sheet: 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Credit Line Extra, out of the edition. Designated for research and educational purposes only. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2013.152

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Although Andy Warhol is often associated with images of celebrities derived from popular culture, he also utilized historical sources. His portrait of the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is based on the head from a 1787 painting by Johann Tischbein. Warhol may have been drawn to this subject because of Goethe’s early writings on the psychological effects of color.


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Publisher Editions Schellmann & Klüser, Munich and New York
Publisher Denise René/Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

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