Lot 10: FRANCESCO VEZZOLI

Study for the November 2011 Art Issue Cover of W Magazine featuring a Rococo Portrait of Nicki Minaj as Jeanne Bécu Comtesse du Barry crying the eye of Virginia Oldoini Contessa di Castiglione
This work is unique.

7 1/8 x 5 3/4 x 7/8 in. (18.1 x 14.6 x 2.2 cm)

laserprint on canvas, metallic embroidery, watercolors andpaper, in artist's frame

2011

Courtesy of the artist

<em>My real obsession is to get closer to my icons, to appropriate them, to remake them. Sometimes I feel like a kid with a telescope and I&#8217;m getting closer and closer to my divas saying: &#8220;I have been watching your films for the last twenty years, but how are you really?"</em> — Francesco Vezzoli

(Steiner, Barbara. <em>The needleworks of Francesco Vezzoli</em>, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003. p. 12.)