Artist: Andy Warhol
Size: 100 x 104 cm
Museum: Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, United States)
Technique: Acrylic On Canvas
In late 1969 Warhol inaugurated Interview magazine as a hip forum for these newfound associates, and in the early seventies he began a highly lucrative series of portraits commissioned by his rich and famous clientele. Among the New York art establishment who sat for Warhol was a group of prominent art dealers and gallery owners that included Leo Castelli, Sidney Janis, and, as seen in the Chrysler portrait, Jack Tanzer. Tanzer was then president of Knoedler-Modarco art galleries, and during the 1970s he helped Walter Chrysler build his collection of European and American paintings. Tanzer would also become an important patron of the Chrysler Museum of Art, in 1976 donating a significant collection of Pre-Columbian works of art and in 1981 this portrait. The closely cropped, bust-length format-a dramatic,
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