Original Paul Morrissey Photograph of Velvet Underground from 1966 in The Factory Never Published or Seen

Paul Morrissey who died last year (2024) was as many know, the film maker at Andy Warhol’s Factory. Along with his films, his photographs are equally amazing. Not as well documented as Billy Name and his images, Paul’s images were kept and not shown very often or sold. Try to find a sold photograph of Paul’s is hard, let alone an images of one of the greatest bands of all times.

Paul had only a few shows of his photographs, many of the images in his collection he did not show, only a handful were printed outside of the select exhibitions. According to his archivist, Paul very rarely did any prints, only for the few exhibition and very rarely for people, “Paul was fairly protective of his stuff so he probably had it made for a friend or colleague.”
The last exhibition was “Photo Opportunities” at Galerie Basia Embiricos in Paris in 2009. 

Airmailweekly, an on line media and news site was invited to Paul’s house after he died and posted this…“Paul Morrissey—who ran the Factory with Andy Warhol from 1965 to 1973, managed the Velvet Underground in their early years, co-founded “Interview” magazine, and was a fiercely idiosyncratic creative force as a cult director—died on October 28 at the age of 86.
It turned out that Morrissey kept everything: thousands of photos, contact sheets, and film negatives; decades’ worth of correspondence; and all manner of notebooks, ledgers, and day-to-day ephemera from the Factory and his filmmaking career. Taken together, these items are, in all probability, the last great trove of untapped and unseen materials from the world that Morrissey and Warhol built.”

A image from the same photo session is shown on Airmail..news in an article by David Kamp and shows the almost the same image but is at a side angle.
Here is the link
https://airmail.news/issues/2024-11-23/the-exploding-archival-inevitable

The image is mid-1966, but the print was made later, possibly by his photo assistant Lucio Relacchi. Paul did have a small exhibition in April – May 2009 titled. According to Paul’s archivist, “Photo Opportunities” at Galerie Basia Embiricos in Paris. Several of the images in the show were printed and sold by Paul Morrissey/Eothen Prints and Photographysalley Gallery in Druyes Les Belles Fontaines, France.”

Paul very rarely did any prints, only for the few exhibition and very rarely for people, “Paul was fairly protective of his stuff so he probably had it made for a friend or colleague.”

The images appears to be from the time and date as the Billy Name photograph “Billy Name - Andy Warhol with The Velvet Underground, Nico's son Ari Delon, Mary Woronov, and Gerard Malanga, 1966”
Paul’s photo is note dated but clearly from 1966. 

The photograph is 16 x 20
The photograph print most likely done in the 2000’s.
Not dated or signed.

Condition: the image is very fine with light marks at the edges from storage. The back has some abrasions but does not affect the image. No tears or damage to the image. Please see the images for more details.