7 February - 1 April 2002

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 Room 1: Flowers 

Warhol began the Flowers series in 1964 reportedly after his friend, the curator Henry Geldzahler, suggested that he should address a positive, life-affirming subject. He produced over 900 of the paintings in just a few months. They recycle the genre of still life painting for the flower power generation. The source for these silkscreened paintings was a photograph of hibiscus blossoms, which appeared in Modern Photography magazine to illustrate an article about colour printing.