Before and After I

Inscription: Signed and dated (verso): Andy Warhol 1961

the artist, New York (1961–70); Halston, New York (until 1981; his gift to MMA)

New York. Bonwit Teller & Co. April 1961, no catalogue [on exhibition in the store window].

Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Andy Warhol: Retrospective," October 2, 2001–January 6, 2002, no. 50.

London. Tate Modern. "Andy Warhol: Retrospective," February 7–April 1, 2002, no. 50.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. "Andy Warhol: Retrospective," May 25–August 18, 2002, no. 50.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," September 10–December 31, 2012, no. 1 (as "Before and After [I]").

Pittsburgh. Andy Warhol Museum. "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," February 4–April 28, 2013, no. 1.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph," September 30, 2024–March 16, 2025, not in catalogue.

Rainer Crone. Andy Warhol. New York, 1970, p. 237, no. 11, colorpl. 65 (installation photo Bonwitt Teller Window Display, New York, 1961), locates it in the collection of the artist.

Donna De Salvo in Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955–62. Ed. Russell Ferguson. Exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, 1992, pp. 88–89.

Leslie Jones in Anne Umland. Pop Art: Selections from The Museum of Modern Art. Exh. cat., High Museum of Art, Atlanta. New York, 1998, p. 106, ill. (installation view exh. New York 1961).

Heiner Bastian. Andy Warhol: Retrospective. Exh. cat., Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin. London, 2001, pp. 23, 307, no. 50, ill. p. 100 (color), calls it "Before and After" in the text.

Georg Frei and Neil Printz, ed. The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, Paintings and Sculpture 1961–1963. London, 2002, pp. 24, 26, no. 006, ill. p. 24 and fig. 5, call it "Before and After [I]".

Arthur C. Danto in Andy Warhol: The Early Sixties, Paintings and Drawings 1961–1964. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel. Ostfildern, 2010, p. 24, fig. 6 (color).

Laurent Goumarre. "Lady Gaga After Andy Warhol." Artpress 378 (2011), pp. 61–62, fig. 8 (color), calls it "Before and After 1" and dates it 1960.

Mark Rosenthal in Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2012, pp. 83–84, 288, no. 1, ill. (color).

Anthony E. Grudin. "'Except Like a Tracing': Defectiveness, Accuracy, and Class in Early Warhol." October 140 (Spring 2012), pp. 143–44, ill. (installation New York 1961), calls it "Before and After (1)".

Max Weintraub. "On View Now | Andy Warhol and the Anxiety of Effluence." Art21 Magazine. Online resource, October 4, 2012, n.p., ill. (overall and installation view, color).

Edward D. Powers. ""All Things That I Didn’t Want to Change Anyway": Andy Warhol and the Sociology of Difference." American Art 26 (Spring 2012), pp. 58, 59–60, 72 n. 15, figs. 7 and 8 (b/w overall and color installation view Exh. New York 1961).

Faye Hirsch. "Deborah Kass: A Woman Under the Influence." Art in America 100 (December 2012), p. 128, notes artist Deborah Kass reproduces part of this work in her painting "Before and Happily Ever After" (1991).

Irving Sandler in Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh. Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After. New York, 2012, p. 13.

Blake Gopnik. Warhol. 1st ed. New York, 2020, pp. 115, 209–214, ill. between pp. 530 and 513 (color, installation view Exh. New York 1961), discusses Before and After series and Exh. New York 1961, noting that Bonwit Teller had bought out Gunther Jaeckel shop on 57th Street where the display was shown.

Michael Bullock. "From Christmas Lights to Megastructures: Curator Abraham Thomas on Six Defining Works of Paul Rudolph’s Career." pinupmagazine.org. March 5, 2025.