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16 December 2021

WARHOL MODELING PORTFOLIO

New York, NY (October 5, 2021) – Andy Warhol is one of the most famous American artists of our time. Though he is most known for his distinctive pop art style, (think Campbell’s soup can, or Marilyn Monroe’s technicolor face repeated in a grid), few know about his fascinating early career as a model.

20 March 2021

$44,000.00 for Andy in Clown Nose

The highest selling single lot of the night was an iconic Christopher Makos portrait of Andy Warhol. Debbie Harry introduced the piece, which fetched $44,000. September 2012

20 March 2021

Andy Kissing John Lennon fetchs $116,000.00

I was in the LA for the Steven Tyler charity, "Janies Fund", Grammy viewing party, I donated a 48" x 64" print for the auction. 2018

31 March 2016

My camera pretty much is a paintbrush.

"Do what you do and do it with so much love that people will see the honesty in what you do and money will come to you. "

8 January 2015

"Stand-Up" portraits

Nowhere in Makos’ oeuvre is the process of deconstruction and reconstruction through disjoint more consistently apparent than in his “Pieced”, or “Stand-Up” portraits.