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RICHARD BERNSTEIN (1939-2002) CANDY DARLING. Circa 1970. 23 1/8x32 1/2 inches. Condition A-: creases in margins and image. Printed on thick paper. An excellent Warhol-era association document, in which one of the avant-garde stars of the Factory is depicted by the man who delineated the face and look of Interview magazine. Candy Darling was a transvestite who appeared in several of Warhol's films, including Flesh (1968) and Women in Revolt (1970-71) as well as other independent films. One of the original Warhol Megastars, Candy Darling died in 1974 at the approximate age of 29. As Steven Heller writes, Richard Bernstein introduced "mannered photo-illustration celebrity portrait covers . . . that defined Interview's graphic personality during the seventies, disco decade. Indeed the latter marked a truly unique approach to editorial cover design . . . Bernstein's covers had roots in sixties fashion illustration, but through his use of photographs heavily retouched with paint, pencil, and pastel he monumentalized subjects like nothing else in print." (http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/i-was-interview-s-layout-man).
