Friday, June 24, 2011

Picture Of You

Having spent quite the long while pestering various djs with Blondie requests, we jumped at the opportunity to observe the in-the-flesh renditions, this day last year. 
 
During same visit, longtime fan and Dublin artist, Peter Rees, presented Debbie Harry with a monochromatic painting of her iconic pout:
 
  
- A pout that is similarly evident in Warhol's screen print 
of one of music's most famous visages, ca. 1980:
 
 
The portrait, made up of five layers of ink screened 
over a bubblegum pink background, is to be auctioned 
by Sotheby's of London at the end of this month.
 
 
↑Blondie strikes a Bowie?↓