About the book:

The sixth volume of the acclaimed The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, covering his paintings and sculptures from mid-1977 to 1980 Volume 6, the final of four volumes dedicated to Warhol’s works of the 1970s, is the third to document the paintings that Warhol produced at 860 Broadway, the studio he would occupy until 1983. This volume includes 741 paintings and sculptures, featuring the epic Shadows project, the Retrospective and Reversal series, Hearts, and the Studio 54 gift paintings, as well as the BMW Art Car and the artist’s first paintings made with diamond dust, the Gem series. Volume 6 also continues the Catalogue Raisonné’s detailed study of Warhol’s portrait practice.

In 1978 and 1979, he photographed nearly 50 sitters with his Polaroid Big Shot camera, including Truman Capote and Liza Minnelli, and painted approximately 200 portrait canvases.

About Andy Warhol:

Andy Warhol (born August 6, 1928, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 22, 1987, New York, New York) was an American artist and filmmaker, an initiator and leading exponent of the Pop art movement of the 1960s whose mass-produced art apotheosised the supposed banality of the commercial culture of the United States. An adroit self-publicist, he projected a concept of the artist as an impersonal, even vacuous, figure who is nevertheless a successful celebrity, businessman, and social climber.