A group of 13 vintage glossy photo prints of all five members of the Rolling Stones biting, licking and sticking out their tongues. The images were originally shot by Andy Warhol as polaroid pictures and used for a 1977 promotional EP that was released as a precursor to the Stones forthcoming “Love you Live” double album, released on September 23, 1977. The images were used for promotional purposes as well, including on a poster. Measures 5 x 7. Slight yellowing and toning to verso, overall fine. Referenced in Andy Warhol, The Record Covers 1949-1987, catalogue raisonné  by Paul Maréchal, n°36.

In a recent interview (July 18th, 2017) in INTERVIEW about the origins of many of Warhol’s photographs Christopher Makos mentions the photos for the “Love You Live” album, remembering that Andy was given a “point and shoot” camera sometime around 1975. And he used it constantly throughout the late 1970s, often replacing his Polaroid camera, which he primarily used for his portraits. However, the “biting” photos are nearly always shown as if they were Polaroid pictures and it remains unclear what camera they were taken with. However, the reproductions on posters and elsewhere suggest that Warhol used both Polaroids and his “point & shoot”camera.

During the summer of 1977, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards rented Peter Beard’s* house in Montauk (East Hamptons, New York State) and Andy took some of the photographs there and some additional ones at Warhol’s third Factory address at 860 Broadway in New York later. Obviously Jagger had brought his daughter Jade to Montauk as it is her hand Mick is “biting” on the “Love You Live” cover. It seems eleven photographs were taken and a contact sheet produced. However the last picture in the second row there, also included in our grouping, shows Mick Jagger biting a child’s hand but this is not the photo that appears on the front cover of “Love You Live“ where Jade's arm is positioned slightly differently.