NEW YORK.- Art dealer Holly Solomon, 68, died. She was the subject of a portrait by Andy Warhol which made her a Pop icon. The Holly Solomon Gallery represented at one time artists such as Nam June Paik and William Wegman. The gallery promoted the small movement called Pattern and Decoration in the 1970’s. Artists in this movement included: Kim MacConnel, Brad Davis, Robert Kushner, Ned Smyth, Valerie Jaudon and Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt. Other artists such as Mapplethorpe, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Artschwager, Christo, and Robert Rauschenberg did portraits of Solomon. Solomon wrote at the time Warhol did her portrait:

“We went to Broadway and 47th Street, where they had this photobooth. Andy met me there, and we had a bunch of quarters. He was very particular about which booth. We tried a whole bunch of them...Actually, if you’re in a photobooth for a long time it gets pretty boring; being photographed anyway is pretty boring. After you do one pose, how many poses can you do? I got so bored that I started toreally act in them. I was a student then of Lee Strasberg, so I started to do all these acting exercises... spent hours. Fifty dollars is a lot in a photobooth!.”