June 16, 2014

"But when she was not in character, with some combination of purple hair, purple lipstick, trowel-heavy purple eye shadow and beet juice as cheek color..."

"... she looked like the prettiest girl at the prom — a soignée brunette with a shoulder-length bouffant, delicate features and maximum false eyelashes."

She was Ultra Violet — Isabelle Collin Dufresne — one of Warhol's "superstars." She died Saturday at the age of 78.

Here's her website.

She wrote a book: "Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol." It begins with a description of Andy Warhol's funeral — "a farewell service for the shy, near-blind, bald, gay albino from ethnic Pittsburgh who dominated the art world for two decades" and "streaked across the sky, a dazzling media meteor, who, in another time or place, could have been a Napoleon or a Hitler."

Here's an interview with her:

9 comments:

The Crack Emcee said...

I am so sick of those people.

Good. Die. Go away.

Bury her in a soup can,...

Anonymous said...

I love the photo of her with Dali. Worlds collide, watches melt.

George M. Spencer said...

Wow, the obit mentions in passing that she converted to Mormonism, at least in part due to the revulsion she felt towards her Warholian lifestyle, and says nothing else about it.

Talk about missing the story.

rhhardin said...

Wahrhol would have been true-get in German.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

With a name like that I'm surprised anyone could see her at all.

The Crack Emcee said...

St. George,

"Talk about missing the story."

No shit,...

David said...

Crack said: "Bury her in a soup can,..."

Classic. It's time to ban Crack now, Althouse. He's getting funny.

Wilbur said...

Warhol?

Wisconsin's blacks are in the shape they're in, and this is your concern?

donald said...

I'm a big Ultra Violet and Mo Tucker fan.