Andy Prince

About Andy Prince

Orange Prince is a 1984 painting by American artist Andy Warhol. Created using Warhol's silkscreen technique, the work is based on a 1981 photograph of musician Prince by Lynn Goldsmith. Warhol was commissioned by Vanity Fair to produce a portrait of Prince in 1984, which was published in the magazine to accompany an article on the musician's success following Purple Rain. He subsequently created additional silkscreen variations that together form the Prince Series, comprising twelve silkscreen paintings distinguished by color, along with two screenprints on paper and two drawings. The Prince Series was not commissioned by Prince but was produced by Warhol for his personal collection. Following Warhol's death in 1987, Orange Prince passed to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is now held in a private collection. The series later became the subject of a high-profile copyright dispute between Goldsmith and the Warhol Foundation, culminating in the 2023 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v.