Liza Minnelli, Minnelli On Minnelli
Hand-Signed, Limited-Edition Lithograph
Edition Size: 300
26" x 21"
$1,500 Liza came to my Gallery wanting Hirschfeld portraits of herself, of her family, and of her family's friends. Her list of Hirschfelds she wanted included the likes of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin and, of course, her Godfather—composer Ira Gershwin. (Liza gets her name from the Gershwin song of the same title.) Liza certainly was a child of Hollywood.
But perhaps the most memorable part of this story unfolded when I told Hirschfeld of Liza's budding collection of his work. "You know," he recounted to me, "they used my address in the song." "What song?" I asked, "And what address?" "Oh," he said, "you know, you know—the one about the boyfriend!"
Elucidation: LizaÕs parents, Judy Garland and Vincent Minnelli, fell in love while filming the movie, Meet Me In St. Louis. In the introduction to her song "The Boy Next Door" Garland laments that the boy she loves never notices her, even ...
"Though I live at fifty-one thirty-five Kensington Avenue
And he lives at fifty-one thirty-three"
In a nod to their good friend Al Hirschfeld, the writers used Hirschfeld's actual boyhood address!
