Andy Warhol: The Portfolios

The Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, United Kingdom) hosts a show that features some of Warhol’s most iconic print portfolios as well as lesser known sets. The exhibition will focus on the period 1962-1984 during which Warhol focused almost exclusively on the silk-screen printing method. This is the first time the exhibition of 80 works from 13 portfolios has visited Europe. The exhibition includes some of the artist’s most iconic imagery, including portraits of Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe, the artist’s self-portrait, still lifes, and mythical or heroic figures such as Superman.

Through his use of colour, design and form, Warhol transforms pre-existing imagery, making ‘multiples’ to portray subjects as diverse as famous faces, still lifes, and animals in danger of extinction. Many of the prints share similar subject matter with works in Dulwich Picture Gallery’s own permanent collection, providing a modern take on themes treated by Old Masters. Warhol based his Vesuvius (1985) print series on a painting from the early 1800s by the Neopolitan artist Camillo de Vito, Eruzione del Vesuvio.

Date: until September 16.
Location: The Dulwich Picture Gallery. London SE21 7AD. United Kingdom
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 11am to 5pm.

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