Andy Warhol

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American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol was one of the protagonists of Pop Art and is often considered to be the most influential contemporary artist of the twentieth century. Warhol had a long and varied career at the forefront of the visual arts in post-war America, working across the diverse media of screenprinting, painting, collage, sculpture, installation and film.

While Warhol is best known for his multiple-image silkscreens of consumer goods and celebrities, he also approached subjects ranging from...

‘Warhol is the bellwether of the art market. Normally, that’s down to a huge market share, or being a trendsetter. The strange thing about Warhol, is that he is both.’

Sarah Thornton, Economist

While Warhol is best known for his multiple-image silkscreens of consumer goods and celebrities, he also approached subjects ranging from still-life, the Renaissance, politics and the natural world. Warhol's influence on the course of post-war twentieth-century art history has been immense, and he continues to dominate the contemporary art market into the twenty-first century.

Andy Warhol, Halcyon Gallery, 2021

Andy Warhol, Halcyon Gallery, 2021

Icons, Halcyon Gallery, 2016

Talking Pop, Halcyon Gallery, 2017

Icons, Halcyon Gallery, 2017

Andy Warhol, Halcyon Gallery, 2019

‘Warhol’s work becomes eternal and iconic in equal measure … He thus becomes the central figure to the massive art market that has grown up around it, locking himself in as the single most important artist in the canon of contemporary art.’

Eric Shiner, former director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

Andy Warhol's Silver Liz [Studio Type], created during the summer of 1963, depicts the iconic movie siren Elizabeth Taylor. With her features imprinted in black ink on a sumptuous metallic silver surface, this elegant portrait belongs to one of two series of Silver Liz paintings Warhol produced using a publicity still of the actress taken in 1960 to promote the film Butterfield 8. The work evokes her aura on the silver screen - a larger than life vision of timeless beauty.

The silver surface of Silver Liz [Studio Type] exemplifies the colour most closely associated with Warhol's work at this pivotal point of his career in the early 1960s, whilst the metallic ground also alludes to the mercurial and ethereal nature of fame. 'It was the perfect time to think silver,' the artist later recalled, 'silver was the future, it was spacy - the astronauts wore silver suits - Shepherd, Grissom, and Glenn had already been up in them, and their equipment was silver too. And silver was also the past - the Silver Screen - Hollywood actresses photographed in silver sets.' Such was Warhol's love of the colour that in 1964 he decorated his 'Silver Factory' studio with sheets of aluminium foil.

Pop to Popism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2014 - 2015

‘The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.’

Andy Warhol

Cut and Paste I 400 Years of Collage, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2019

Original Silkscreen Graphics

Early Illustrations

Andy Warhol Tattooed Woman Holding A Rose

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Andy Warhol: The Portfolios, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 2012 © REUTERS / Alamy

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Chanel No. 5 Celebrates 100th Anniversary

14 October 2021

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Andy Warhol’s Shoes and other Early Illustrations

By Kate Brown, Art Director, Halcyon Gallery

8 July 2020

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Andy Warhol at Tate Modern

A major retrospective showcasing Warhol's iconic pop images & installations

12 March—6 September 2020

‘Instinctively an astounding colourist ...Warhol achieved in his art a signature style like no other; when meditating upon a work of his art, it is impossible not to recall the appearance and presence of the artist himself.’

Norman Rosenthal, Curator & Art Historian

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