Fact sheet AWA - Ingrid With Hat II.315

Andy Warhol
Ingrid with Hat (1983) (FS II.315)
Silkscreen on Lenox Museum Board
97 x 97 cm
From the portfolio of three: edition of 250
Signed & numbered in pencil, lower right.
Andy Warhol’s ‘Ingrid with Hat’ is one of three screen-prints from Warhol’s
1983 Ingrid Bergman portfolio.
Bergman cemented her role as one of the greats in old-time Hollywood
following her breakthrough role in the Award-winning film Casablanca
alongside legendary actor, Humphry Bogart.
‘Ingrid With Hat’ depicts an image of her as Lisa from the classic film and
typifies her powerful character in Casablanca and has since become as
famous as the film itself.

‘Ingrid with Hat’ largely presents a primary colour palette
(red, blue, yellow), especially where the light hits.
The image background is sky blue, the same shade as the shadows of her
facial features. Bergman wears a wide purple hat with a shadowy navy
underside, which sits on top of textured neon-yellow hair with olive green
undertones.
A deep red lip becomes the most pronounced feature against her white
skin, matching the red of her textured blouse. Warhol accentuates the
entire image by tracing red, brown, and yellow sketch lines around her
formal features. Bergman stares diagonally out into the distance, so that the
classically neutral pose matches the work’s classic colour palette.
In the entire Ingrid Bergman portfolio, this work may be the most
quintessential example of Pop Art.
As an A-list actress, Bergman would become an ideal subject for Warhol,
whose infatuation with celebrity figures never faded.
A Swedish art gallery commissioned Ingrid Bergman to commemorate her
life after she passed away a year prior.
‘Ingrid with Hat’ is stylistically like Warhol’s other celebrity series,
especially his Marilyn Monroe portfolio.
Warhol used uncomplicated shading and zealously coloured both; their
undeniable boldness certainly matches the beauty and personalities of the
iconic women represented.
No one could have recognized how heavily Casablanca impacted Hollywood
until years later.
Come 1977, Casablanca was the most screened movie on television
(despite it having been filmed more than thirty years prior, during the
midst of a war America had not yet entered). Bergman became a gamechanging
Hollywood celebrity by sporting a natural, almost makeup-free
look for the film (despite protests from producers). Yet ‘Ingrid with Hat’
better recognizes and commemorates an illustrious character who
impacted the world with her journey of love, sacrifice, and doing what’s
best for the greater good. These morals have influenced countless
Academy-Award winning films.
Warhol’s posthumous collection immortalized her perfectly. Ingrid
Bergman’s performance in Casablanca continues to be recognized as a
prodigious role in one of the greatest films of all time. ‘Ingrid with Hat’ is
thus exemplary of Warhol’s innate ability to capture the elegance and
prestige of his culture’s finest moments.