ANDY WARHOL & SPORTS STARS: JOHN MC ENROE

“His first contact with Warhol was at the hip Studio 54 night club in New York. McEnroe is mentioned in Warhol's diaries as early as 1979, but says: "I didn't really know him. He was this weird guy who was always at parties taking pictures. I was amazed when I was told he was one of the most influential artists of the 20th century." In 1986, the year of his marriage to O'Neal, McEnroe went to a charity auction and bid "something like $30,000" to have their portrait painted by Warhol. In contrast to his early paintings of stars such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor that were taken from publicity shots, most of Warhol's later society portraits were the results of commissions and based on Polaroid photographs that he would take.”

-Telegraph
June 21 2008