The Wild Story of Warhol’s Brigitte Bardot: Playboy, Goddess, Legendary Romance | Sotheby’s

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Well, I think she speaks for herself.

[00:00:02]She's extraordinarily beautiful. The passion of her lips, the piercing stare that in a way [music] looks back into time.

[00:00:13]She allowed my father to look back into an era [music] that had passed, I think is poetically romantic.

[00:00:25]I'm going to Saks, my father had a legendary relationship with an icon of history, Brigitte Bardot, the young French star, is also quite easy on the eye. I've lived [music] with this piece before my entire memory. My father and Bardot had a relationship that was a true joie de vivre, something that seems to be lost a little bit in the rat race of today.

[00:00:53]I believe my father asked Andy if he would paint a set of Bardot's for [music] him because it did capture that era in his heart.

[00:01:04]>> [sighs] >> This painting not only immortalizes a person, it immortalizes an era that represents untethered living. [music] The piece was super meaningful to my father because it was, you know, an emblem of his youth, an artifact of a time gone by, but a time [music] that defined Bardot, it defined my father, it defined Warhol. It was, you know, a mythical time.

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