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ARTIST ROOMS: The d'Offay Donation
Andy Warhol (1928–1987)
Six rooms comprising 232 works, surveying the artist’s career through a range of media. The package includes 20 paintings (including important diptychs and self-portraits); 32 photographs; 50 early drawings and watercolours dating from c.1950s – 1962; four drawings dating between 1974 and 1981; 126 posters.
Andy Warhol is the most influential artist of the post-war period. The most famous proponent of Pop Art, his earliest works depict consumer goods and images from the popular press. Many of his most powerful images betray his enduring fascination with celebrity and mortality. The selection from The d’Offay Donation includes a great array of important works representing all phases of the artist’s career and a cross-section of media. Particular highlights are the unique collection of 50 early works on paper as well as the iconic multiple Skulls (1976) and the multiple Self-portrait Strangulation (1978). The collection includes a unique room of late diptychs as well as the celebrated four-part Camouflage of 1986 which were the central exhibit in the Andy Warhol retrospective at the National Gallery of Scotland in 2007. The d’Offay Donation includes a group of spectacular stitched photographs as well as a series of Polaroid self-portraits. The collection is complemented by 126 Warhol posters from all periods of the artist’s career, including his films.
Ice Cream Dessert 1959
Ink and dye on paper
737 x 356 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Skulls 1976
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Six parts, each: 381 x 476 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Portrait of Joseph Beuys 1980
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
510 x 410 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Gun 1981
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Two parts, each: 1780 x 2290 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Dollar Sign 1981
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
2290 x 1780 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Hamburger 1985-86
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Two parts, each: 1830 x 2030 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Camouflage 1986
Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
Four parts, each: 1830 x 1830 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Statue of Liberty 1986
Stitched photographs on paper
711 x 838 mm
Photo courtesy Anthony d'Offay Ltd
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, NY and DACS, London 2008
Artists
- Diane Arbus
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- Georg Baselitz
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- Joseph Beuys
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- Vija Celmins
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- Ellen Gallagher
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- Gilbert & George
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- Johan Grimonprez
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- Richard Hamilton
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- Ian Hamilton Finlay
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- Damien Hirst
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- Jenny Holzer
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- Alex Katz
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- Anselm Kiefer
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- Jeff Koons
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- Jannis Kounellis
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- Sol LeWitt
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- Richard Long
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- Robert Mapplethorpe
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- Agnes Martin
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- Mario Merz
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- Ron Mueck
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- Bruce Nauman
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- Charles Ray
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- Gerhard Richter
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- Ed Ruscha
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- Robert Ryman
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- Robert Therrien
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- Cy Twombly
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- Bill Viola
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- Andy Warhol
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- Lawrence Weiner
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- Francesca Woodman
