Indira Cesarine x Karen Bystedt "Gilded Andy Pink + Silver" The Lost Warhols Collection

Indira Cesarine x Karen Bystedt "Gilded Andy Pink + Silver" 2022
Collaboration with artist Indira Cesarine (artwork) and Karen Bystedt (photograph)

Mixed Media, Archival Ink on 100% Cotton Canvas, Hand Gilded Gold and Silver Leaf, Mounted on Wood Stretchers.
Dimensions 16 x 16in 
Unique
Signed by both artists, includes certificate of authenticity.

ABOUT ARTIST INDIRA CESARINE

Indira Cesarine is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, video, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Her practice explores feminist narratives, identity, power, and autobiographical themes, informed by her Latinx heritage and women’s history. Blending traditional and new media, Cesarine examines contemporary culture through work that is both intimate and politically resonant.

A graduate of Columbia University with a triple major in Art History, French, and Women’s Studies, she has additionally studied at Parsons School of Design, School of Visual Arts (SVA), The New York Film Academy, The New York Academy of Art, as well as Brooklyn Glass and Urban Glass. Cesarine began exhibiting at a young age, presenting her first solo exhibition at sixteen at the Paul Mellon Art Center, and has since shown her work internationally at museums, galleries, and art fairs.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hudson Valley MOCA, Mattatuck Museum, Albany Institute of History & Art, The Watermill Center, Annmarie Sculpture Garden in partnership with the Smithsonian, Agnes Varis Art Center, CICA Museum, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. She has also exhibited her artwork at Art Basel Miami Beach, SCOPE Art Show, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, the French Embassy Cultural Center with American Friends of The Louvre, Smack Mellon, A.I.R. Gallery, Canvas 3.0 at the World Trade Center, and the Every Woman Biennial (2022, 2024, 2026). She has participated in artist residencies, including Silver Art Projects (2021), Norwood Club (2020), and her ongoing residency at The Parlor NYC since 2020.

Cesarine’s work has been included in prominent benefit auctions such as “Take Home a Nude” at Phillips and Sotheby’s New York, ARTWALK NY supporting the Coalition for the Homeless, and the Gabrielle’s Angels Gala. Her public art projects include the “FUTURE VISION” billboard series presented by Save Art Space; “The Egg of Light,” exhibited at Rockefeller Center as part of the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt; and representing New York State for “HER FLAG,” a nationwide initiative commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Clinton Memorial Library.

Her exhibitions and artwork have been featured in leading international publications, including The New York Times, Vogue, Forbes, Newsweek, W Magazine, Dazed, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Read more about her artwork and exhibitions on our website.

ABOUT ARTIST KAREN BYSTEDT

Karen Bystedt is an internationally acclaimed, highly prolific photographer and mixed media artist currently based in Miami, Florida. She has published four photography books including Not Just Another Pretty Face (NAL, 1983), The New Breed (HOLT, 1989), Before They Were Famous (GPG, 1994) and They Dared To Dream (OSLO PROD, 1998). She has photographed film stars and rock and roll icons such as Slash, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Drew Barrymore, Eddie Van Halen, and Jon Bon Jovi. Her work is exhibited in museums across the globe including The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, and The Armenian Museum of Modern Art., and her images have appeared in dozens of publications including Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, Connoisseur Magazine, The Peninsula Magazine, Fabrik Magazine, InStyle and People. Her work has been exhibited and sold at Art Basel at Scope, Red Dot, Art Houston, LA Art Fair, Art Hamptons, and at Port Authority in NYC.

ABOUT THE LOST WARHOLS:
In 1983, Karen Bystedt, then a young film student, cold-called Andy Warhol at Interview Magazine and asked him to pose for her book-in-progress featuring the era’s top male models. She had come across an image of the legendary artist modeling for Barney’s and hoped to capture the icon in this unique context. Warhol asked Bystedt whom else she intended to include in this book, upon hearing her answers, he swiftly agreed to join the fold. The resulting images materialize a rare and remarkable sense of vulnerability; in this portrait session, Bystedt captures a soft and submissive Warhol, a man who spoke much of beauty, and its essential mystery, and as is suggested in his rigid pose, his bewildering gaze, and simply, his participation in her project, seemingly so wanted to be seen as beautiful himself.

Bystedt included two of the thirty-six photos shot that afternoon in her book "Not Just Another Pretty Face" published by NAL, and placed the negatives in storage, where they lived untouched for twenty-five years. In 2011, Bystedt felt compelled to revisit her representations of Andy and unearth the images captured that afternoon. She was able to locate ten of her original negatives, yet time and its offspring, reality, had taken its toll on her spellbinding photographs. She dedicated the preceding four months to restoring her Andy, pixel-by-pixel, infusing new life, breath by breath, into her images. 


Over the last ten years, this canon has developed and expanded; the work is definitively diverse, representing an eclectic array of artistic identities, thus promoting inclusion whilst positioning the artwork in the realm of the accessible with which Warhol himself toyed. The Lost Warhols live as a testament to the intrinsic value of eclecticism in visual perspective, honoring individuality in interpretation, and allowing the self to shine in position as part of a greater whole. 

Works from The Lost Warhol collection are featured in The Andy Warhol Museum, MoMA Olso, Hearst Tower, and many other museums and private collections around the world. They have been auctioned in benefits for AMFAR, Gods Love We Deliver, and recently featured at Red Dot Art Fair for Art Basel Miami 2022.

The Lost Warhols collection has been featured in countless magazines and newspapers, including Vogue, The Times, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, Interview Magazine. NY Post, WWD, LA Weekly and The Huffington Post, among many other international publications.