Now one of the most famous of these, the Prince series, is at the heart of a case ... Vanity Fair used for the article. The silkscreen images have since been sold and reproduced to the tune ...

Warhol died in 1987, and his foundation assumed ownership of his work, including the 16 images in what came to be called the Prince Series. Works in the series have sold for six figures ...

At that point, Condé Nast, the parent company of Vanity Fair, published a different one of Warhol’s images from his Prince series, silkscreened in orange rather than purple (“Orange Prince”). The Andy ...

Warhol originally created the silk screen images for a 1984 Vanity Fair article about Prince, basing them on photos taken by Goldsmith three years earlier. The copyright issues arose in force ...

whose work Warhol used to create his series of more than 15 images of Prince. Roman Martinez, who represents the Warhol Foundation, said the late artist’s creation was transformative ...