Andy Warhol's Bad
1977
Artist
Designer Unknown
DIMENSIONS
33 x 23 1/2 in. (83.8 x 59.7 cm)
OBJECT NUMBER
PH.7467
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN
Germany
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Saul Zalesch
KEYWORDS
Entertainment, Exploitation, Film, Man, Sex, Sexploitation, United States, White, Woman

This poster promotes the German release of Bad, the last film by Andy Warhol, the American pop artist and avant-garde film director, who said he wanted to make a movie about “bad women and incompetent men.” It is a sleazy tale of a woman (Carroll Baker) who runs an electrolysis parlor in Queens as a front for a “dial-a-murder” organization of female assassins. The poster, based on production stills from the film, was designed by Jamie Wyeth, a young artist whom Warhol had recently invited to work at “The Factory,” his New York studio; they painted each other’s portraits and collaborated on several projects. Wyeth created the poster in 1976 while the film, released the following year, was still in production.

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