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This is the front cover of volume IX, number 4 (April, 1979) of INTERVIEW, Andy Warhol's fabled tabloid. On this cover is a brightly-colored portrait of a young and attractive Jessica Lange, executed in purest "Interview" style. Warhol has added a fanciful necklace in felt-tip pen. Inscribed "To Lillyan" (sic) and FULLY SIGNED (again, in felt-tipped pen) BY ANDY WARHOL. Boldly SIGNED on the acid-free mount in felt-tipped pen BY JESSICA LANGE in Barcelona on April 23, 2015, at the Centre Santa Mònica, which was holding an exhibition of her photographs. 43 x 28 cm (17 x 11 inches), and thus COMPLETELY UNTRIMMED. Professionally deacidified and matted. In excellent condition. Provenance: "Lillyan" was Lilyan Cole, the second wife of Sylvan Cole (dean of American print dealers and a well-known fixture of the New York arts scene from the 1940s until his death in 2005.) When Lilyan died in 1989 this picture passed to Sylvan. Shortly before his death Sylvan gave it to me (his favorite nephew). Lange signed it in my presence. Original drawing over a mass-reproduced color image is perhaps the perfect embodiment of Warhol's art. UNIQUE.