{"product_id":"letter-to-the-world-fsii389-martha-graham-1986","title":"Letter to the World (FS.II.389, Martha Graham), 1986","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Letter to the World (FS.II.389, Martha Graham)\" is a screenprint created by Andy Warhol in 1986. From the edition of 165, the artwork is signed 'Andy Warhol' and numbered on verso. The artwork is framed in a custom closed-corner gold-leaf frame and has a framed size of 43 x 43\". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAndy Warhol’s \"Letter to the World,\" from the 1986 \"Martha Graham\" portfolio, brings together two very different forms of modern image-making: Graham’s revolutionary language of movement and Warhol’s graphic vocabulary of repetition, color, and surface. Created to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, the portfolio honors Graham not as a conventional celebrity, but as an American cultural figure whose body, choreography, and public image had become inseparable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWarhol based the series on photographs by Barbara Morgan, whose images helped define the visual memory of Graham’s performances. This source is important. Warhol was not translating dance directly, but rather working from photographs that had already frozen movement into iconic form. His screenprint process adds another layer of transformation, turning Graham’s gestures into bold, stylized images that exist between performance, photography, and Pop portraiture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Letter to the World,\" also known as \"The Kick,\" captures Graham in a dramatic airborne extension, her body and sweeping costume suspended against a black ground. The image is elegant and forceful at once. Warhol’s pink, red, blue, and white outlines heighten the sense of motion while preserving the sculptural clarity of the pose. The figure appears almost weightless, yet the composition retains the discipline and tension of a dancer’s body held at full expressive capacity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Letter to the World\" show how Warhol could treat movement as image without reducing it to simple illustration. Letter to the World offers grace, lift, and theatrical drama. The work preserves the charge of performance while acknowledging that dance, once photographed and reproduced, becomes part of a larger culture of images.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin Warhol’s late print production, the Martha Graham works occupy a focused and sophisticated place. They are not the broad-market icons of celebrity or consumer culture, but they offer something more specific: a tribute to American modernism, female creative force, and the transformation of performance into lasting visual memory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andy Warhol","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51627984224573,"sku":"GRWAR038901","price":148500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1551\/3581\/files\/GRWAR038901___P-Image_letter_to_the_world_NU0082_d33b8224-c6bb-492f-9f63-4db3b58cdd02.jpg?v=1776964200","url":"https:\/\/martinlawrence.com\/products\/letter-to-the-world-fsii389-martha-graham-1986","provider":"Martin Lawrence Galleries","version":"1.0","type":"link"}