"Chris Evert"

Painting of Chris Evert. She is looking slightly to the side and is holding a Wilson tennis racquet on her right shoulder. She is wearing a spaghetti strap dress, necklace and her finger nails appear to be painted. Color scheme is florescent mint green, peach-pink and black.

In 1977, collector Richard Weisman commissioned Warhol to create portraits of the top ten athletes of the 1970s. Warhol noted that “the sports stars of today are the movie stars of yesterday.” The ten athletes chosen by Weisman for this portrait series included: Jack Nicklaus (golf), Tom Seaver (baseball), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball), Pelé (soccer), O.J. Simpson (football), Dorothy Hamill (figure skating), Willie Shoemaker (horse racing), Muhammed Ali (boxing), Rod Gilbert (hockey), and tennis’ own Chris Evert.