Andy Warhol (1928-1987) Portrait of Martin Burgoyne. Original graphite drawing on rag paper with deckle edge. Portrait of Andy's close friend Martin Burgoyne (1963-1986). Signed on middle right edge Andy Warhol 1986. In very good original condition, with no damage or repair. Professionally framed, hinged at the top, not laid down. In good condition. Drawing measures 32" high x 24" wide. Drawing comes directly from Martin Burgoyne's parents, Irene and Peter Burgoyne, and has been in their possession for nearly three decades. The drawing is the image used on the cover of the invitation (sent to friends of Martin), for the September 4, 1986 Martin Fun(D) benefit. The archives department of The Andy Warhol Museum have one of the original mailed invitations in their collection. Andy Warhol's portrait of Martin is on the cover and a Keith Haring drawing is inside (see image of original 1986 invitation).

Various excerpts from - The Andy Warhol Diaries - by Pat Hackett chronicle events leading up to the Sept. 4, 1986 Martin Fun(D) event that Andy created the portrait drawing for: July 25, 1985 - Martin Burgoyne came over and invited me to be his date to the Madonna wedding in L.A. in August. July 27, 1985 - I called Keith (Haring) to tell him I was invited by Martin to Madonna's wedding. Keith's invited too. August 25, 1986 - Martin Burgoyne called and he asked me to do a drawing of him for a benefit to help pay his hospital bills. August 26, 1986 - Martin Burgoyne called and said he'd come over with a photograph of him and Madonna that I could use for my drawing, but I said he should rest and save his energy, that I'd have it picked up for him. Sept. 4, 1986 - Then we (Philip Johnson, David Whitney and Andy Warhol) went downtown to the benefit for Martin Burgoyne at the Pyramid on Avenue A (cab $8, admission $30).

The invitation drawing portrait of Martin was used to publicize the event and raise funds for the medical care of Martin Burgoyne. The September 4, 1986 benefit event organized by friends of Martin Burgoyne was held at the Pyramid Club located at 101 Avenue A in New York. In a September 6, 1986 New York Times story covering the event it stated; "More than 500 of Mr. Burgoyne's friends and acquaintances came to the party. Andy Warhol, who did two drawings of Mr. Burgoyne for the invitations, was there, as was Keith Haring, the noted artist who designed the inside of the invitation. Madonna, who was described by everyone as a very close friend of Mr. Burgoyne's, came to the party and spoke with him for a long time. Included with the drawing is a photo-copy of the Madonna and Martin photograph Andy Warhol used for the portrait of Martin. Also included is a copy of the 2010 book titled - "Maripol: Little Red Riding Hood". The book includes photographs of Martin and Andy and a photo of Martin Burgoyne, Maripol, Tom Cruise, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Steve Rubell taken after the wedding of Madonna and Sean Penn inside their limo.

From Askart.com: Andy Warhol, whose name is synonymous with Pop Art, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. He studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949. He then went to New York City where he became an illustrator until 1960 when he began making paintings based on comic strip characters such as Popeye, Dick Tracy, and Superman. He turned from the prevailing Abstract-Expressionist styles and the emphasis on the artist's emotion to a hard-line Realism, using many common images associated with the popular media such as a Campbell’s Soup can or a Coca-Cola bottle or Brillo pad. The first images were handpainted, but many were reproduced with a silk-screen process. He became the "first artist to utilize the screenprint medium to elevate both common and famous photographic images from popular culture to fine art status." (Falk Vol III, p. 3465) In May, 1999, ARTNews magazine named him one of the twenty-five most influential artists-ever. About him, it was written: . . . "it all began with the first Campbell's soup can in 1962. . . With this simple image, the concepts of appropriation and commodification were let loose for good. Warhol's celebration of his screen sirens, hustler hunks, and cafe-society wanna-bees . . .had an equally dramatic effect." In 1964, Warhol began making sculpture, often with labels from supermarkets, and in the 1970s, he turned to portraits, some of the most famous being Jackie Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Mao Tse Tung, and Marilyn Monroe. These images reflected his fascination with the topic of death, something he carried into a series called Death and Disaster, which included depictions of car crashes and gang warfare. Many celebrities and socialites regarded it as a notch 'up-the-ladder' of social recognition to be painted by Warhol. He died in New York City in 1987 from gall bladder surgery that no one expected to be complicated.