Elizabeth's image was already synonymous with Hollywood in her heyday. Her face was turned into an immediately recognizable visual icon when Warhol produced artwork with her now classic portrait as the subject matter. And interest has not waned - one of Warhol's pieces featuring her likeness, the 1962 "Men in Her Life" black and white painting sold at auction last year for $63 million, an unexpectedly high price point due to the demand.
To celebrate her life and honor her memory, here are a few shots of rooms which prominently display her portrait - it couldn't have been easy to have your image typify an industry but she wore the responsibility well.
Cheers, Elizabeth!
Shown above:
1. Andy Warhol, 1964
2. An interpretation of the classic Warhol portrait by Deborah Kass via Hamptons Cottages & Gardens
3. A Todd Romano room via Luxury Interior Design
4. Tommy Hilfiger's apartment in NYC's Plaza via Harper's Bazaar
5. Black and white photo in a vintage modern style bedroom via Elle Decor
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So sad.
A true icon of the 20th century, RIP.
strength,humor,humbleness,lover of life....such a wonderful person to have watched over the decades.........so missed..
She will always be Maggie the Cat to me. That was always my favorite movie of hers.
very very sad!
..and how about Butterfield 8. What a good actress! That is what I call an icon. Nowadays just anybody gets a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Let us not forget her work for HIV awareness, her beauty, her eyes, her charm, her diamonds, her marriages.
Love you Elizabeth Taylor.
It is sad. And it is amazing how her personal glamour added/invoked so much instant glamour to these rooms. Think of some of these rooms without her portrait and well it would be a very different room.
I hadn't heard the sad news - she was a great lady, and a great beauty.
When my girls were little, we must have watched her in National Velvet at least a 100 times! When I thought of the most beautiful woman in the world, her face came to mind. One of the first Hollywood stars to recognize the growing danger of aids and work to raise awareness and donations. She was amazing...loved you, Elizabeth.
We shared a birthday and I always felt a certain closeness to her because of it. She never looked lovelier than she did in A Place in the Sun. That scene where she and Montgomery Cliff kiss for the first time makes me melt. My condolences to her family, friends and all who loved her.
For someone so beautiful, I thought she managed growing old with amazing joie de vivre. Weight gain or wrinkles, she never seemed to let anything stop her from living life to the fullest. It's hard to imagine a world without her in it. Sad day.
RIP, beautiful lady.
TSK! C'mon AT, how about inviting us to see Ms Taylor's homes??
http://dameelizabethtaylor.com/homes.html
I once saw pictures of Ms. Taylor's house in a magazine........quite gawdy if you ask me (which you didn't of course).
It's sad. One of the last great Hollywood stars has gone out. Not just a celebrity, but a good person and humanitarian.
That said, I could never understand how people liked Warhol's portrait of her. He made one of the most beautiful women look cheap and ugly.
My mom will be incredibly sad to hear this news. Elizabeth Taylor was one of her idols.
@S.J.P.
Elizabeth was once quoted as saying, "I know I'm vulgar, but would you have me any other way?" :)
My partner and I felt a real sense of uniqueness having dinner two tables next to Miss Taylor in a restaurant in Puerto Vallarte in the 80s. If it wasn't the quite fuss of other guests we would not even have noticed that this living legend was so close to us. She was utmost casual and quite with a few other friends. The gay owner of the restaurant Cafe Bistro, when we returned the last day of our holiday told us that she was god mother to their two surrogate babies. They had a lovely home on the little island next to the restaurant on the river flowing down through the city towards the sea. Yes 320+million $ later who will stand up for Aids as she did personally? I am sure her understanding of others suffering was generated by her own unfortunate multiple ailments, showing us that fame and money does not make us invincible to poor health. The last of grand ladies of the movies has left us. Rip.