Bequeathed by the artist to the present owners circa 1950
Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein; Dusseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Bremen, Kunsthalle; Munich, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst; Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, Andy Warhol: Das zeichnerische Werk 1942-1975, 1976, no. 92, pp. 109, 223 (illustrated, p. 109; dated circa 1945)
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Success is a Job in New York: The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol, March 14, 1989–September 9, 1990, p. 27
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie; London, Tate Modern, Andy Warhol: Retrospective, October 2, 2001–April 1, 2002, no. 3, pp. 15, 62, 306 (illustrated, p. 62; erroneously titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose)
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, February 3, 2010–April 1, 2019 (long term loan)
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Andy Warhol: The College Years, August 6, 2010–January 2, 2011
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pearlstein | Warhol | Cantor: from Carnegie Tech to New York, May 30–September 6, 2015, p. 59
Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, My Perfect Body, October 21, 2016–January 22, 2017, p. 73
Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell Museum, Inventing America: Rockwell + Warhol, June 10–October 29, 2017, pp. 11, 83 (illustrated, p. 11)
Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol: A Picture Show by the Artist, New York, 1987, no. 92, pp. 111, 272 (illustrated, p. 111; dated 1946)
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, p. 14 (illustrated)
Warhol, Le grand monde d'Andy Warhol, exh. cat., Galeries Nationales d'Exposition du Grand Palais, Paris, 2009, fig. 3, p. 26 (illustrated; titled as The Lord Gave me my Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose (Nose Picker 2))
David Anfam, ed., Andy Warhol, New York, 2011, pp. 20-21 (illustrated, p. 21; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose)
Rudo Prekop and Michal Cihlár, Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia, New York, 2011, p. 71 (illustrated; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose)
Edward D. Powers, ““All Things That I Didn’t Want to Change Anyway:" Andy Warhol and the Sociology of Difference,” American Art, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring 2012, fig. 6, pp. 55-57 (illustrated, p. 57)
Joseph D. Ketner II, Andy Warhol, New York, 2013, no. 12, p. 21 (illustrated; titled as The Broad Gave Me My Face, But I Can Pick My Own Nose)
Bill O’Driscoll, “ArtReview: Body of Work,” Pittsburgh City Paper, vol. 27, issue 2, January 11, 2017, p. 21
American • 1928 - 1987
Andy Warhol was the leading exponent of the Pop Art movement in the U.S. in the 1960s. Following an early career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol achieved fame with his revolutionary series of silkscreened prints and paintings of familiar objects, such as Campbell's soup tins, and celebrities, such as Marilyn Monroe. Obsessed with popular culture, celebrity and advertising, Warhol created his slick, seemingly mass-produced images of everyday subject matter from his famed Factory studio in New York City. His use of mechanical methods of reproduction, notably the commercial technique of silk screening, wholly revolutionized art-making.
Working as an artist, but also director and producer, Warhol produced a number of avant-garde films in addition to managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founding Interview magazine. A central figure in the New York art scene until his untimely death in 1987, Warhol was notably also a mentor to such artists as Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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