Andy Warhol
'Art is anything you can get away with.'
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987), artist, printmaker, film maker, director, the producer was a leading light in the pop are a movement. Born on 6th August 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Warhol studied commercial art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), where he joined the Beaux-Arts Society and took on the role of Art Director of the student magazine Cano. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in pictorial design in 1949, and later that year began his career in magazine illustration in New York City.
Warhol began exhibiting his work during the 1950s. He held several exhibitions at the Hugo Gallery and the Bodley Gallery in New York, and the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles (the debut of his famous Cambell’s Soup Cans). His first solo exhibition was held at Stable Gallery in New York in 1962. The same year, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) hosted a Symposium on Pop Art featuring Warhol’s work.
Warhol founded his own studio “The Factory” in the early 1960s, and a wide range of artists, writers, celebrities and musicians collaborated or exhibited there. Warhol was included in many exhibitions alongside contemporary pop artists; particularly seminal to his career was the 1964 exhibit The American Supermarket held in Paul Bianchini’s gallery in New York. The show – designed like the average American supermarket – confronted Warhol’s viewers with questions of consumerism, the perennial nature of what art is - or should be - and the links between market culture and artistic representation or documentation.
The 1960s served as a backdrop to Warhol’s filmography; he made more than 60 films between 1963 – 1968 and continued to produce and paint, all the while challenging viewers to reconceive their notion of art and embrace the necessity of popular culture’s presence within institutions such as galleries, museums and art fairs.
Warhol began to work to commission in the 1970s, painting celebrity portraits which would later be exhibited in the Jewish Museum in Manhattan in 1980. In the wake of an attempt on his life in 1968, Warhol increased greater security at The Factory and devoted more time to securing wealthy patrons he could paint for commission. His subjects included Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah’s sister Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, Mick Jagger, Prince and Diana Ross. Warhol founded Interview Magazine in 1975, using the medium to publish his views on philosophy, art and the blurred lines between creativity and business. In 1979, Warhol founded the New York Academy of Art.
Warhol’s death in 1987 saw him leave his entire estate to a foundation dedicated to the visual arts, named The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Warhol’s collectors are worldwide, with a large repository of his work on display at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
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Beef Consommé, from Campbell's Soup Cans I, 1968
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Tomato Soup, from Campbell's Soup I, 1968
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Cheddar Cheese, from Campbell's Soup II, 1969
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Mick Jagger, 1975
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Shoes, 1980
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Queen Elizabeth II, from Reigning Queens, 1985
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In the Bottom of My Garden., ca. 1956
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Waterzoie, from Wild Raspberries, 1959
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Untitled, from 25 Cats Name[d] Sam and One Blue Pussy, 1954
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Greengages a la Warhol, from Wild Raspberries, 1959
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Salade de Alf Landon, from Wild Raspberries, 1959
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Piglet, from Wild Raspberries, 1959
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Flowers (Hand-Colored) (F & S II.116), 1974
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Ladies and Gentlemen, 1975
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Flowers (Hand-Colored) (F & S II.114), 1974
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Flowers (Hand-Colored) (F & S II.115), 1974
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Flowers (Hand-Colored) (F & S II.110), 1974
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Flowers (Hand-Colored) (F & S II.110), 1974
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Flowers (Hand-Colored) (F & S II.118), 1974
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Queen Ntombi Twala, 1985
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Andy Warhol: 20 Under 20
9 Feb - 18 Mar 2023Consequently, the international demand for all things ‘Warhol’ has meant that the value of his work is on an upward trajectory, with Shot Sage Blue Marilyn selling for a record...Read more -
Made in America
24 Nov 2022 - 8 Feb 2023Our new exhibition ‘Made in America’ is now open at our Maddox Street gallery until the end of January 2023. The show features original prints by some of the greatest...Read more -
Summer Show 2022
6 Jun - 24 Aug 2022This is a group exhibition celebrating the brilliance and diversity of modern printmaking techniques with works by Andy Warhol, Alex Katz, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso....Read more
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Art Miami 2019
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Art Miami 2020
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Art Miami 2022
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Frieze Masters 2021
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Frieze Masters 2022
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Hamptons Fine Art Fair
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London Original Print Fair 2021
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London Original Print Fair 2022
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TEFAF 2020
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Warhol in Focus
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Frieze Masters 2023
11 - 15 Oct 2023Shapero Modern & Shapero Rare Books are honoured to be participating in the 2023 edition of FRIEZE MASTERS, located in the north-west corner of London's...Read more -
Hamptons Art Fair 2023
13 - 16 Jul 2023Shapero Modern are delighted to announce their participation at this summer’s Hamptons Fine Art Fair 2023 which takes place at the Southampton Fairgrounds from 13...Read more -
TEFAF Maastricht
11 - 19 Mar 2023Widely considered the preeminent fine art & antiques fair, TEFAF Maastricht continues to develop apace, drawing in thousands of collectors, interior designers and the simply...Read more -
Art Miami 2022
29 Nov - 4 Dec 2022Shapero Modern will be returning for a third time to Miami for America’s foremost contemporary and modern art fair. The Fair is the original and...Read more -
Masterpiece London 2022
30 Jun - 6 Jul 2022Masterpiece London is one of the leading international art & antique fairs, with exhibitors from around the world showcasing a wide variety of fine art,...Read more -
London Original Print Fair 2022
26 - 29 May 2022We are delighted once more to be taking part in the LOPF. Founded in 1985 at the Royal Academy of Arts, this year the LOPF...Read more -
Frieze Masters 2021
13 - 17 Oct 2021Shapero Rare Books and Shapero Modern are delighted to be taking part in the 2021 edition of Frieze Masters, which will be taking place in...Read more -
London Original Print Fair 2021
21 - 24 Apr 2021Shapero Modern is excited to be taking part in London Print Week, this year’s edition of the London Original Print Fair, which will take place...Read more
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'What is a Print?' by Gallery Director Tabitha Philpott-Kent
June 25, 2021Artists have long supplemented their larger practice by making prints: original works, usually on paper, created in numbered editions and produced in collaboration with some...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Kiku
April 20, 2022Warhol once remarked, ‘I always notice flowers.' Kiku is a fascinating series that focuses on the chrysanthemum flower, Kiku in Japanese. Warhol created 300...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Electric Chair
April 27, 2022Electric Chair is part of Warhol’s substantial Death and Disaster series which he started in 1962, early examples of which depicted car crashes and suicides...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Turtle
May 4, 2022Andy Warhol’s Turtle, 1985 is a metamorphic portrait of a sea turtle in shades of purples, pinks, and blues. Based on a photograph the...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - The Star
May 13, 2022Andy Warhol’s Myths (1981) is a portfolio of 10 prints that includes: The Star, The Witch, Howdy Doody, Uncle Sam, Superman, Mammy, Dracula, Santa Claus,...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Mick Jagger
May 20, 2022Andy Warhol met Mick Jagger in 1963 when the Rolling Stones were relatively unknown in the United States. Warhol had designed the band’s provocative album...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Vesuvius
May 25, 2022In ‘Vesuvius’ Andy Warhol represents the magnificence and grandeur of the Neapolitan icon in his typical Pop Art style. This is an ‘hommage’ to Naples...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Birth of Venus
June 8, 2022Andy WARHOL Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1984 Screenprint on Arches Aquarelle (Cold Pressed) paper Edition of 70 ‘When you think about it, department stores...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Black Rhinoceros
June 15, 2022Discover more about Andy Warhol every Wednesday and view available art for sale at Shapero Modern. Black Rhinoceros is part of Andy Warhol’s influential 1983...Read more -
#WarholWednesday - Committee 2000
September 14, 2022Andy Warhol’s ‘Committee 2000’ was commissioned and published by a group called Committee 2000 in Munich, Germany, in 1982 to raise funds for upcoming projects...Read more -
New Exhibition | Made in America
November 29, 2022Our new exhibition ‘Made in America’ is now open at our Maddox Street gallery until the end of January 2023. The show features original prints...Read more -
Andy Warhol's Blotted Line Drawing
February 6, 2023Andy Warhol, Self Portrait 1983 reproduced from 35 mm negative In 1950s New York, before the Pop Art soup cans and Marilyns, Andy Warhol was...Read more -
Spotlight | Andy Warhol: 20 Under 20
February 8, 2023From 1953 to 1959, Warhol self-published a series of portfolios, books and individual prints - each work was produced as an offset lithograph, with Warhol...Read more -
Spotlight | Ladies and Gentlemen
February 8, 2023Known for his fascination with the iconic, famous and infamous, Andy Warhol captured the likeness of countless household names, however the subjects of his 'Ladies...Read more -
Spotlight | The Flowers Series
February 9, 2023Made in 1974, the ‘Flowers’ series is a sudden diversion away from Warhol’s typical stylistic way of working at the time. Throughout this series Warhol...Read more -
Spotlight | Shot Blue Sage Marilyn
February 10, 2023Take a look at this exhibition poster advertising Andy Warhol's 1971 exhibition at the Tate. The poster displays Warhol's iconic Shot Blue Sage Marilyn (1964)....Read more -
25 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy
by Andy Warhol February 18, 202325 cats name[d] Sam, and One Blue Pussy, circa 1954 One of Warhol’s first illustrated bound books. Produced with Seymour Berlin of Record Offset Corporation...Read more