Mop art: Andy painting a very large canvas, circa 1975.

The Factory’s front room: Andy and Fred Hughes, president of Andy Warhol Enterprises, with a wooden bust of Leonardo da Vinci, at 860 Broadway, the third Factory.

The Interview office at 860 Broadway with managing editor, Robert Hayes, seated, and Ronnie Cutrone, Andy’s art assistant, standing.

Paul Morrissey directed Andy’s films and dominated the second Factory, at 33 Union Square West, 1969–1974.

Brigid Berlin, a Hearst heiress, star of Chelsea Girls, Factory receptionist, and Andy’s closest telephone confidante.

Interview’s fashion editor, André Leon Talley, and writer Fran Lebowitz, whose column, “I Cover the Waterfront,” had a huge following.

Factory muse: Barbara Allen (later de Kwiatkowski), in a Halston dress inspired by Andy’s 1964 Flower paintings.

Interview contributing photographer Peter Beard, a favorite of Lee Radziwill and Barbara Allen, with Vincent Fremont.

Vincent Fremont, vice president of Andy Warhol Enterprises, with Carroll Baker, star of Andy Warhol’s Bad.

Andy with Jed Johnson, his only longtime boyfriend (1968–1980) and the editor of some Warhol films.

Jed with Factory booster Adriana Jackson, wife of Brooks Jackson, director of the Iolas Gallery in New York.

Newsprint mogul Peter Brant, Andy’s leading American collector and co-owner of Interview in the early seventies and again after Andy’s death.

Andy with his favorite Interview contributing photographer, Christopher Makos, at a New York restaurant.

Swiss art dealer and collector Thomas Ammann with Maura Moynihan, daughter of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and decorator Suzie Frankfurt, an intimate of Andy’s since the 1950s.

London decorator Nicky Haslam with Lady Anne Lambton, a Factory intern who called herself Andy’s bodyguard and who went on to act with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

British brewery heiress Catherine Guinness and Andy arm wrestling on the plane of collectors Chris and Sondra Gilman.

The Factory’s Los Angeles guides: Dagny Corcoran, daughter of collector Ed Janss and founder of Art Catalogues, and Wendy Stark, granddaughter of Fanny Brice and daughter of producer Ray Stark.

Kerry Kennedy, a daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and Mary Richardson, one of the author’s assistants, at Thomas Ammann’s summer house in East Hampton.

Barry Diller, then chairman of Paramount Pictures, and Diane von Furstenberg, the designing princess, who had her portrait done twice by Andy.

After dinner at DVF’s: Brazilian artist Sylvia Martins, the hostess, Richard Gere—who had just starred in American Gigolo—and Barbara Allen.

Marisa Berenson, the star of Death in Venice and Barry Lyndon, with Jonathan Lieberson, contributing editor of Interview, at Diane von Furstenberg’s Fifth Avenue apartment.

Model-musician Jennifer Jakobson with Factory intern and future novelist Fernanda Eberstadt, daughter of Freddy and Isabel Eberstadt, Andy’s friends from the sixties.

Bianca Jagger and Halston were at the center of Andy’s Studio 54 “in” crowd.

Elsa Peretti, famous for making jewelry—and scenes.

Marina Schiano, the Yves Saint Laurent vice president who married Fred Hughes, with Calvin Klein, left, and Giorgio di Sant’Angelo, circa 1977.

Andy with Rupert Smith, his silkscreen printer, on a ferry to Fire Island, summer 1979.

A nearly nude Victor Hugo, Halston’s window dresser and boyfriend, at a Fire Island pool party for Andy Warhol’s Exposures; this was Andy’s only visit to the gay resort in the 1970s.

Out on the town: Bianca and Andy.

Steve Rubell, co-owner of Studio 54, and Andy at a birthday dinner given for Bianca by Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera at Mortimers in 1981.

Andy with artist Larry Rivers and architect François de Menil, whose mother Dominique de Menil had mentored Fred Hughes in Houston.

Andy at a party with his tape recorder, which he referred to as “my wife Sony,” and an unidentified friend.

John Ballato, whose tiny East Houston Street restaurant was the first art-world hangout in Soho in the 1970s, greeting Andy and chicken king, Frank Perdue, whom Andy called a walking brand name.

Andy backstage with Raquel Welch, Interview cover girl, after her performance in Broadway’s Woman of the Year.

Society divas: Nan Kempner, left, a Warhol portrait subject, and Maxime de la Falaise McKendry, who starred in Andy Warhol’s Dracula.

Andy with New York social powerhouse Jerry Zipkin, a friend since the 1950s.

Houston philanthropist Lynn Wyatt with Truman Capote—both were painted by Andy; Truman’s Interview pieces were collected in Music for Chameleons.

Men about town: Boaz Mazor, an Oscar de la Renta executive, and John Richardson, the Picasso biographer who admired Andy’s work.

Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun and fashion designer Carolina Herrera at Bianca’s birthday dinner at Mortimer’s.

Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall at a party in Paris; both were on the cover of Interview and Andy painted both their portraits.

Liza Minnelli, who commissioned Andy to paint portraits of her mother, Judy Garland, and father, director Vincente Minnelli, here with Alexis de Redé, at Marisa Berenson’s wedding.

Movie stars Alexis Smith and Sylvia Miles; the latter starred in Andy Warhol’s Heat after winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Midnight Cowboy.

Factory friends: Spyros Niarchos, a Greek shipping heir, and Peppo Vanini, owner of Xenon, Studio 54’s rival.

Andy was obsessed with Paloma Picasso, the artist’s jewelry-designing daughter, here with first husband Rafael Lopez Sanchez and his fellow Argentine writer, Xavier Arroyuelo.

The Empress of Fashion and the Pope of Pop: Andy and former Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland found each other both endearing and annoying.

Hollywood legend Paulette Goddard, who had been married to Charlie Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque, fascinated Andy so much he tried to write a book about her.

Andy signing copies of Interview at Fiorucci on East 59th Street, with Truman Capote, whom he had idolized in his youth and became friends with in the 1970s.

President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn at the White House unveiling of prints done for his inauguration by five artists including Andy.

Artists Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein in the Green Room at the White House the day after Carter’s inauguration in 1977.

Andy with Happy Rockefeller, one of his first portrait subjects in the 1960s, at Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inauguration.

Andy with Nancy Reagan’s decorator, Ted Graber, and Betsy Bloomingdale at an inauguration party.

Ron Reagan with his wife, Doria, the author’s secretary at Interview (1981–1983), at the inauguration.

Andy, a life-long Democrat, was nonetheless excited to meet Henry Kissinger at a Washington dinner.

Andy and Fred Hughes at the Seattle Art Museum’s Warhol retrospective in 1977.

Country singer John Denver and Andy at the Aspen home of John and Kimiko Powers; behind them are three of the twenty-four portraits Andy painted of Kimiko in 1971.

Paris hostess São Schlumberger, posing with her Warhol portraits, in her Left Bank hôtel particulier.

The High Priest of German conceptual art, Joseph Beuys autographs a catalogue for Andy, circa 1980.

Andy taking polaroids of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt for a portrait commissioned by Brandt’s Social Democratic Party, Bonn, 1976.

Andy having breakfast in his Naples hotel suite wearing his usual sleep attire—shirt, jockey shorts, and Supp-hose socks, 1976.

Andy and Fred on one of their many Italian business trips.

Artist Descending a Staircase: Andy at the 57 East 66th townhouse he bought in 1974.

Andy in the front hall closet of the East 66th Street house, getting ready to go out.

The Montauk compound, which had a main house, three guest houses, a caretaker’s cottage, garages, and stables on twenty acres; Andy bought it with Paul Morrissey in 1972 for about $250,000.

The author and Fred Hughes negotiating the rocky beach at Montauk with a wheelbarrow full of driftwood.