Ethel Scull 36 Vezes

In 1963 the collector Ethel Scull commissioned Andy Warhol to paint her portrait, and instead of sitting her in a studio he took her to a Times Square photo booth. He fed in coin after coin, telling her to smile, take off her sunglasses, run her fingers through her hair, until the booth had spat out dozens of strips. From those snapshots he silkscreened 36 canvases and hung them in a grid. It was Warhol's first commissioned portrait, and it quietly rewrote what one could be. There is no single dignified likeness here, only a wall of a woman laughing, fidgeting, mugging, caught in the same cheap machine an ordinary New Yorker used for a passport photo. Scull and her husband went on to own one of the largest collections of Pop art anywhere.