Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Trump Tower
stamped with the Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. stamps and numbered 'VF71.018' (on the reverse)
graphite on paper
39¾ x 30½in. (101 x 77.5cm.)
Executed in 1981

Provenance:
Stellan Holm Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist Notes:

‘Had to meet Donald Trump at the office (cab $5.50). Marc Balet had set up this meeting. I keep forgetting that Marc gave up architecture to become an art director, but he still builds models at home, he told me. He’s designing a catalogue for all the stores in the atrium at the Trump Tower and he told Donald Trump that I should do a portrait of the building that would hang over the entrance to the residential part. So they came down to talk about that. Donald Trump is really good-looking. A girl named Evans was with him and another lady. It was so strange, these people are so rich. They talked about buying a building yesterday for $500 million or something. They raved about the Balducci’s lunch, but they just picked at it. I guess because they go around to so many things where there’s food. And they didn’t have drinks, they all just had Tabs. He’s a butch guy. Nothing was settled, but I’m going to do some paintings, anyway, and show them to them’ (A. Warhol, quoted in ‘Friday, April 24, 1981’, in P. Hackett (ed.), The Andy Warhol Diaries, New York 1989, pp. 376-377).

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