Liz Taylor - Liz Taylor Classic
4 colour Screen-print.
Signed and numbered.
330gsm Fedrigoni paper.
70 x 78cm.
Available in 3 Colours:
National Velvet - Green - Edition of 100.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Pink - Edition of 100.
Classic - Red - Edition of 40.
This image of Elizabeth Taylor is originally taken from a publicity photograph for Taylor’s film ‘Butterfield 8’ as the basis for the screenprint.
National Velvet
In the fifth feature film of her young career, the 12-year old Taylor starred as the titular Velvet Brown, a passionate little girl intent on breeding a prize-winning racehorse. The film won two Oscars, including Best Editing and Supporting Actress (Anne Revere). The film follows Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), a wayward vagabond whose lengthy travels through England leads him to the doorstep of the Brown family. Mi immediately befriends the Browns' youngest daughter, Velvet, and vows to help her groom a newly obtained racehorse named Pie to national prominence.
"There used to be a game, a joke, where you asked people to write the sign that should hang over your head or your life or something. And Roddy [McDowall] and Tennessee said that mine should read 'All Hungers Met,' because if there was a hunger for anything, I probably possessed it, and in my house, my company, you'd meet people who were hungry for just about everything. And I feed everyone, as you know. So pull up a chair, a plate, and an obsession. You're with me."
Elizabeth Taylor-Interview with James Grissom
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Adapted from the beloved Tennesse Williams stage play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stars Taylor as the titular feline who uses her feminine wiles to drive her drunk boyfriend stir-crazy. When the Pollitt family reunites at Big Momma's (Judith Anderson) house for a farewell sendoff to their terminally ill Big Daddy (Burl Ives), the dysfunction reaches a fever-pitch. Paul Newman plays Brick, a former football star who wastes his time drinking to avoid his philandering wife Maggie (Taylor). The film scored six Oscar nods, including Best Picture and Leading Actor nominations for Taylor and Newman.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Taylor expressed the full gamut of human emotion in her Oscar-winning, tour-de-force performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Adapted from the Edward Albee stage play, the film marks the directorial debut of Mike Nichols. The story concerns an old married couple (Taylor and her real-life husband Richard Burton) who drunkenly berate each other in the company of a sexy young couple (George Segal and Sandy Dennis) visiting for the night. The film won five Oscars, including Sandy Dennis's victory for Best Supporting Actress.