PAIR GERARD MALANGA 66 ANDY WARHOL COLOR SCREEN TESTS Start Price USD 17,500.00 Current Price USD 17,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, July 16, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 23, 2008 Location New York See more about 'PAIR GERARD MALANGA 66 ANDY WARHOL COLOR SCREEN TESTS' Description A PAIR OF 1966 ANDY WARHOL/GERARD MALANGA UNIQUE COLOR SELF PORTRAITS FROM THE ANDY WARHOL SCREEN TESTS: Andy Warhol/Gerard Malanga 2 Gerald Malanga Self Portaits: Positive and Negative, 1966 Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga Collaboration Each Malanga Self Portrait is a Unique Photograph on AGFA Photo Paper from the Original Andy Warhol Screen Test Film of Gerald Malanga 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches each Each Screen Test Work Titled by the Artist in Pen on the verso "Unique/one of a kind" Each Screen Test Signed and Dated by the Artist in Pen on the verso "Gerard Malanga 1966" Each embossed lower right recto "Malanga/Warhol" Each Stamped verso "Screen Test by Malanga/Warhol"Literature: "Screen Tests: A Diary", Andy Warhol/Gerard Malanga, Kulcher Press, NY, 1967 similar images illustrated in color on Front and Back Covers "Super Warhol", Germano Celant; Published by Skira/Grimaldi Forum Monaco, 2003; other Works from the Screen Test Series reproduced in Black & White on pages 245-248These Unique Gerard Malanga Color Photographs are from the 1966 Andy Warhol Screen Test Films. Each is in Excellent Condition. Each Work is framed in a matching Plexi Box Frame and this pair look great when they are hung next to each other. Truly special Works.Andy Warhol's Silent Screen Tests Portrait Movies were filmed from early 1964 through November 1966. Andy Warhol selected the subjects for his Filmed Screen Test Portraits based on their respective "star" potential. Subjects were usually seated in front of a tripod mounted camera, and told not to move nor blink while the camera filmed them in a tight straight on close up. Although each Film was shot at the standard film speed of twenty-four frames per second, Warhol created Screen Test Films that were projected at a slower speed of sixteen frames per second, a rate often used in the projection of Silent Films. Warhol eventually created more than 500 Screen Test Films. Some of the footage was later incorporated into Warhol's films, 13 Most Beautiful Boys, 1964; 13 Most Beautiful Women, 1964, and 50 Fantastics and 50 Personalities, 1964. Gerard Malanga also used some of the Screen Test Film reels in his multimedia poetry readings called Screen Test Poems in 1965. In 1966, Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga collaborated on a Book of Screen Test Stills which included 54 Portraits: 17 women and 37 men. The Warhol/Malanga Film Still Book was published in a very limited production, estimated to be less than 500 copies, and the Book was of such high quality that the 54 images were each published as 54 separate Screen Tests on acetate. Essentially, each of the Warhol/Malanga Screen Test Books included 54 Warhol/Malanga Screen Test Portraits. The first Screen Tests Film originated from Gerard Malanga's need for a publicity still of himself. After seeing Andy Warhol's film Eat, Gerard Malanga asked Warhol if Warhol would shoot a reel of a tightly framed headshot of Malanga so that Malanga could select a frame, have it printed as a still and use it to publicize Gerard's poetry readings. That became the first Screen Test! After that, Screen Test Subjects included: Nico, 1966; Francesco Scavullo, 1965; Marisa Berenson, 1965; Lou Reed, 1966; Edie Sedgwick, 1965; Salvador Dali, 1966; Donovan, 1966; Susan Bottomly- International Velvet, 1967, Marie Menken, filmmaker wife of Willard Maas/star of Chelsea Girls, 1966. Today, these Andy Warhol Silent Screen Test Films have been the subject of International acclaim and interest including multiple Museum Exhibtions. In 2003, the Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA) had an Exhibition titled Andy Warhol: Screen Tests which presented twenty-eight Screen Test Film selections from MOMA's collection of approximately 500 Screen Test Films created by Andy Warhol. The Set of Two Color Photograph Malanga Film Still Works offered in this Lot were created by Malanga from the footage of the Andy Warhol Screen Test Films. The Works offered in this ebay live lot are both Unique, one of kind Color Photographs. This Unique Set of Two Screen Tests is well priced, considering the strong prices achieved in London during February 2006. This is a GUARANTEED Authentic Set of Two Unique Color SCREEN TEST Self Portraits by ANDY WARHOL/GERARD MALANGA. LeveneFineArtLtd, a Fine Art Dealer for over 25 years, was an Original Charter Member of Sothebys.com online auctions and accordingly was required to Guarantee Authenticity of all Fine Art offered and sold on the Sothebys.com site. We continue to provide this same Guarantee of Authenticity for all the Fine Art we offer and sell on eBay. LeveneFineArtLtd was founded by Joseph K. Levene, previously President of the NY Office of Petersburg Press, Inc., the Fine Arts Publisher. 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