Description Selling Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. About The Gallery. Portrait of Billy Boy as Barbie’’, 1986 17. [At Billy Boy's Barbie exhibition at Pier 92, with Benjamin Liu and Andy Warhol; At Peter Allen's birthday party at Bud's on Columbus Avenue with Peter Allen, Liberace, Roberta Flack] Author: Warhol… In realtà Warhol voleva ritrarre Billy Boy, un designer di gioielli ventitreenne, sua musa. 1989. Warhol was responsible for BillyBoy* getting the project as he insisted to the Absolut company BillyBoy* was a major force on the art scene of the time, along with Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, and Stephen Sprouse and Andy Warhol who also got involved with the project. Fellow friend to both, Paige Powell noted Warhol ‘adored BillyBoy* because he was so talented and fun to be with’ (P. Powell, ‘Portrait of the Ultimate Neo-Nature Boy’, New York 2005). Since then Thomas & Friends have aired in 180 countries around the world in 55 languages. Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Billy Boy; He was 14 years old when he got his first hat designed by Elsa Schiaparelli. Buy Billy Boy artwork by Andy Warhol on Widewalls. Warhol was responsible for BillyBoy* getting the project as he insisted to the Absolut company BillyBoy* was a major force on the art scene of the time, along with Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, and Stephen Sprouse and Andy Warhol who also got involved with the project. The portraits were reportedly inspired by Warhol’s 23-year-old muse Billy Boy, a jewelry designer and member of New York’s downtown scene in the … Warhol, who identified as gay and whose work drew heavily on his participation in the LGBT community, confessed to his biographer in 1980, at the age of fifty-two, that he was still a virgin. On our Marketplace, the artworks available for sale can become yours in just a few clicks. Warhol's 1986 painting, Barbie, Portrait of BillyBoy* shows Barbie with blonde hair and bright blue eyes, against a powder blue background, which Warhol dubbed "Billy Boy blue". Rounding out The Velvet Underground were Moe Tucker, who played her simplified drum kit standing up, and Sterling Morrison on guitar. Dopo tutte le opere che ritraggono volti di star ricolorate e ripetute, Andy Warhol ne crea un’ultima, un anno prima di morire, che raffigura l’emblema del pop, Barbie. “Sterling Morrison was an intellectual who seemed to bridge the art scene of John Cale with the rock’n’roll world of Lou Reed,” recalled Billy Name, Warhol’s assistant and sometimes-boyfriend. It is unknown how long this film is or whether it still exists. According to Debra Miller in the book, Billy Name Stills From the Warhol Films, in approximately July 1965, "members of the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders performed en masse for one of Andy Warhol's impromptu portrait reels while Billy [Name] photographed their in-house performance." The first Barbie portrait was reportedly inspired by Warhol’s muse, Billy Boy, a jewelry designer and member of New York’s downtown scene in the 1980s, who owned a vast collection of Barbie dolls. Thomas & Friends makes its U.S. debut on PBS. The next day, BillyBoy* and Lala flew to Moscow as guests of the the ..