Kimiko Powers

MEET ANDY WARHOL (MEET YOU MUSEUM · IN SPACE) (BEIJING)

Warhol, Andy

1981

Serigrafía

89 x 63,5 cm / Size with frame: 103 x 81,5 cm

Kimiko Powers, A poster for the Colorado State University Exhibition, 1981
Warhol’s Kimiko Series features Kimiko Powers, an art collector. Popularized in international art
circles in the 1960s, Kimiko and her husband, John, amassed one of the most comprehensive
private collection of pop art. This perhaps led to her friendship with famous artists such as Andy
Warhol. This was also around the time in the 1970s when Warhol began to regularly accept
commissions to paint portraits of the rich and famous because he thought that everyone deser-
ved their “15 minutes.” This portrait captures Kimiko wearing a traditional Japanese dress, glan-
cing at the observer, suggestively Warhol, in an intimate manner. It captures the often-unexami-
ned bond between the artist and the collector.

Edition: 250