"Yes, it's Batman and Robin, and yes, it's Andy Warhol and his latest girl-person (named Nico), and that, friends, is the Sixties whether you like it or not..."

Frank Bez, "Yes, it's Batman and Robin, and yes, it's Andy Warhol and his latest girl-person (named Nico), and that, friends, is the Sixties whether you like it or not..."

Frank Bez, artist

1930–2018

"Yes, it's Batman and Robin, and yes, it's Andy Warhol and his latest girl-person (named Nico), and that, friends, is the Sixties whether you like it or not...", circa 1966

Portfolio/Series title: "Remember the Sixties?," published in Esquire magazine, August 1966

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: board; gelatin silver print; airbrushing

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 34.2 x 26.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 13 7/16 x 10 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.

Accession number: 1980.0860

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Politics, Race, Celebrity: Photographs from the Esquire Collection

Nico (born Christa Päffgen) sang vocals on the Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. Warhol managed the band during this time period and included them in his multimedia performance art show the Exploding Plastic Inevitable.
The campy, live action television series Batman premiered in 1966. In this version of the Dynamic Duo, Nico plays Batman and Warhol appears as Robin, “The Boy Wonder.”

Archive Label 2003:
Esquire commissioned this photograph for a story about the luminaries of the 1960s. Andy Warhol, an icon of the art world, is known as much for his work as for his public persona. He constructed an image for himself as well as for many of the people who congregated at his studio, the Factory. Warhol was influential in making Nico a superstar by getting her a high-profile job as a singer for the Velvet Underground. Like the original Dynamic Duo Batman and Robin, Warhol and Nico are presented here as “superheroes,” stars of a decade (or at least for fifteen minutes).