RICHARD BERNSTEIN - DEBBIE HARRY, 1979

Blondie--The Epitome of Cool! Glam and punk rock don’t always go together, but Debbie Harry makes it look so right. Richard unveiled this portrait at Studio 54 and drew inspiration from the Hollywood starlets of the 1940s, bringing that glamour to Harry’s punk style. Debbie Harry possesses a raw, alluring charm that makes her completely captivating and an influential style icon.

Bernstein, R. (2021). Debbie Harry, 1979. [Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag archival paper].

Limited Edition: 33/150, 34/150, 35/150

Edition of 150

Artist Estate ink stamp on verso

Certificate of Authenticity

Provenance: The Estate of Richard Bernstein, Westport, CT

Print size with ½” added white border:

19.5” (49.5 cm) x 31” (78.7 cm)

Richard Bernstein (1939-2002) was an American Pop Artist widely remembered as the creator of the iconic portraits for Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine from 1972 to 1989. Since the mid ‘60s he was one of the first artists to blur the line between commercial and fine art. Bernstein’s technicolor artwork captured the glamor and extravagance of the Pop Art era, whom Andy Warhol called “my favorite artist.” In the early 1980s Bernstein was one of the pioneering artists working with computer generated graphics. He created a portrait of David Bowie in 1983, which is the first digitally created portrait from the Pop Art movement. His works are in permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Portrait Gallery, among others, and has been exhibited internationally, including The Nottingham Contemporary, The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, and most recently the Warhol Museum.

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