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Andy Warhol

(1928-1987), Artist

Sitter in 2 portraits
Artist of 8 portraits
Warhol was born and studied in Pittsburgh, later moving to New York where he had his first solo show in 1952. In 1960 he began to paint from mass-produced images and consumer goods such as Campbell's soup cans. At his studio, known as the Factory, his assistants mass-produced these using silkscreens. In the 1960s Warhol was at the centre of the Pop Art movement, making experimental films, painting portraits of celebrities, photographing nudes, producing a record and founding the magazine Interview. In 1968 he was shot, bringing the Factory era to an end. In 1970 a major retrospective, organized by the Pasadena Art Museum, toured the United States and Europe. In 1994 the Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh.

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor

by Andy Warhol
offset lithograph, 1967
NPG 6051

Mick Jagger

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen print, 1975
NPG 6561

Queen Elizabeth II

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen print, 1985
NPG 5882(1)

Queen Elizabeth II

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen print, 1985
NPG 5882(2)

Queen Elizabeth II

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen print, 1985
NPG 5882(3)

Queen Elizabeth II

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen print, 1985
NPG 5882(4)

Joan Collins

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 1985
NPG 6257

John Kobal

by Andy Warhol
silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 1986
NPG 6162

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