Mick Jagger 143 is a screenprint by Andy Warhol in his signature collage style, from the Mick Jagger portfolio. The piece is a testament to Warhol’s study of celebrity. The collection displays Jagger through a lens of varied angles and facial expressions, while Warhol’s use of color serves to amplify the rockstar’s most alluring qualities. Like the others in the series, Mick Jagger 143 includes both Warhol’s signature in pencil and Jagger’s in felt pen.
Andy Warhol’s Mick Jagger full suite used images based off of Polaroids taken of the musician in Warhol’s Factory. Since the 1960s Warhol had a professional relationship with the British rock n’ roll band, The Rolling Stones. Additionally, Warhol had a close friendship with the lead singer of the band, Mick Jagger. Having spent considerable time with Mick and his then wife Bianca, the couple were staples in Warhol’s social circle. Their friendship was publicly known and is referenced frequently in literary works such as The Andy Warhol Diaries, POPism: The Warhol Sixties, and Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up.
