"Portrait of Andy Warhol"
1976

From Lenny Campello at BlogCritics:

"It is one of these portraits of Warhol by Wyeth ("Portrait of Andy Warhol," 1976, and presumably Kramer’s "beast") that really stands out as a unique insight into an artist whose face is perhaps second only to Frida Kahlo’s in the recognition factor among the art world’s portraiture consciousness.

Wyeth has said about this portrait that Warhol’s "whole thing of absorbing everything, of recording — turning yourself into a sort of tape recorder — that appealed to me. I had that element in my vocabulary at that point anyway, but he re-instated it in me. Our work was diametrically opposite. But I loved the idea that he was a recorder. And I styled myself after it - or at least, it appealed to me; it fit right into what I wanted to do. And then I selfishly wanted to record him and paint every pimple that he had on his face. And he let me."

While I was at the museum, it was this portrait of Warhol that attracted the most attention, even from a visiting self-proclaimed Warholite who told me that she had come to the exhibition just to see it  it (the painting is owned by the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville).

It captures the illusion of Warhol as only a master portrait artist can; somewhat dazed and fragile, looking much as if Warhol had aimed his famed 16mm camera onto himself. This is Wyeth at his most spectacular, in full control of unbelievable genetic technical skills that were evident at a tender age (he had his first New York gallery show at the age of 20). "