In the spring of 1975, the Rolling Stones rented Warhol’s Montauk Church Estate on Long Island to prepare for their upcoming tour. Warhol used this opportunity to take numerous photographs of Mick Jagger, depicting him bare-chested in various poses. By using his own snapshots for the resulting graphic portraits, Warhol eliminates a defining element of his earlier work. He made portfolios of ten different portraits, for which he used a new technique: a combination of photography, collage, and drawn lines. Like strips of paper, he laid areas of color over the actual image, creating striking, flirtatious depictions of the musician. Alongside the Marilyn Monroe series, the mid-1970s portraits of Mick Jagger rank among Andy Warhol’s most famous. The frontman of the Rolling Stones, a band founded in 1962 that had already completed numerous tours across America and Europe by then and achieved worldwide fame not only through their progressive music but also through their provocative stage shows, was virtually regarded as a symbol of freedom that defied all social conventions. The eccentric Warhol, who had found his own trademark look in the 1960s with a white-blond wig and black sunglasses, must have recognized in Mick Jagger an eccentric alter ego that inspired him to create these landmark portraits. A distinctive feature is the musician’s signature on some of the prints. Not only the “painter” but also his model immortalize themselves in these works. [EH]