MICK JAGGER 143
Mick Jagger 143 is a screenprint by Andy Warhol in his signature collage style, from the Mick Jagger portfolio. The piece is a testament to Warhol’s study of celebrity. The collection displays Jagger through a lens of varied angles and facial expressions, while Warhol’s use of color serves to amplify the rockstar’s most alluring qualities. Like the others in the series, Mick Jagger 143 includes both Warhol’s signature in pencil and Jagger’s in felt pen.

MICK JAGGER 143 AS A PART OF ANDY WARHOL’S LARGER BODY OF WORK
In this series Warhol clutches the zeitgeist of the 1970’s counterculture. He saw Mick Jagger as both an exciting and complicated figure of his time who held the spotlight with an untamed gaze. Ever since his captivation with Elvis, Warhol had kept an eye on the power of rock stardom. Mick Jagger 143 proceeds one step further and seizes upon the raw spirit of American pop culture. Through Mick Jagger, Warhol captures its shades of light and dark, its highs and lows and its erotic beauty.