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[WARHOL, Andy (1928-1987)]. Two Press Photographs of Warhol and His Artwork. [London: Daily Mirror, 1 Nov 1965, 17 Feb 1971]. Black-and-white photographs of Warhol; one (1965) of Warhol in front one of his artworks; the other (1971) is a photo of an exhibition of his artwork, “The Most Wanted Men,” with a Tate Gallery security guard in the foreground. Photos range in size from 271 x 210 mm to 205 x 254 mm. Some rubbing, creasing, 1971 photo is toned. Both photos with editorial inkstamps, markings and printed captions affixed to versos. From the caption affixed to the verso of the 1965 photo: “Their [Pop Artists] Cecil B. DeMille is Andy Warhol, twenty-nine-years old, silver-haired (painted, not dyed), a former commercial artist. Andy became rich and famous by painting pictures of Campbell’s soup tins.”