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Hedy Lamarr - Clark Gable's Nightmare Yellow Flouro
Hedy Lamarr - Clark Gable's Nightmare Yellow Flouro
The patent filed in 1941 by Hedy and Antheil for a ‘secret communication system’

Hedy Lamarr - Clark Gable's Nightmare Yellow Flouro

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76 x 76 cm x 4cm
Stencil spray paint on canvas
2016 
Unique colourway

Pure Evil explains that a chance email from a Chinese “copy village” gave impetus to his “Nightmare Series.” The village offered, via email, a list of artists it could reproduce, including three Andy Warhol paintings. The idea of Warhol’s entire artistic output distilled right down to three small 64 x64 pixel thumbnails of Jackie Kennedy, Liz Taylor and an Electric Chair became the inspiration for these doomed and dripping celebrity portraits. Why are they crying ? “Its an illustration of the heartbreak and sadness we have all experienced in relationships in the past.”

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(1914-2000)

Who Was Hedy Lamarr?

Hedy Lamarr was an actress during MGM's "Golden Age." She starred in such films as Tortilla Flat, Lady of the Tropics,Boom Town and Samson and Delilah, with the likes of Clark Gable and Spencer Tracey. Lamarr was also a scientist, co-inventing an early technique for spread spectrum communications — the key to many wireless communications of our present day. A recluse later in life, Lamarr died in her Florida home in 2000.