Picasso and Warhol in Beijing

Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol in Beijing

 Art lovers in Beijing flocked to the UCCA Center for Contemporary art last summer to view a retrospective of the works of Pablo Picasso. The show was the first comprehensive exhibit of Picasso's work in mainland China, and it set new attendance records.

 

The Center for Contemporary Art focuses primarily on living artists, but the success of the Picasso exhibition led the museum staff to reach out to The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh to arrange a comprehensive show of Andy Warhol's work.

 

The aspect of the Picasso show that seemed to most engage the public in China, was the story of the artist and how he attained his style and success. To that end, the Warhol exhibit will include more than 200 paintings, prints, drawings, films, and photographs, as well as archival materials which illustrate the story of Warhol's childhood in Pittsburgh to his success in the art world of New York.

 

The exhibit, simply titled Andy Warhol will be on display from July 3 through October 10, 2021 in Beijing before traveling to the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Shanghai in November.

 

Warhol's Last Supper to be Auctioned by Baltimore Museum

Like many other American museums, the Baltimore Museum of Art has been closed and struggling during the pandemic. In an effort to raise funds, the museum is going to sell Andy Warhol's iconic Last Supper and two other works by postwar artists. The museum expects to raise $65 million, which it plans to use to create a fund for staff raises, diversity and equity programs, and to boost its acquisitions budget.

 

In 1984, Warhol was commissioned to create a group of works based on Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper for an exhibition space in the Palazzo Stelline in Milan, located just across the street from Santa Maria delle Grazie, the home of Leonardo's masterpiece. Warhol completed the original commission and then, in true Warhol fashion, became obsessed with The Last Supper and created about 100 more works based on the original painting.

 

The Works of Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol Available at Surovek Gallery

Portrait of the Artists, created by Warhol in 1967, available at Surovek Gallery, is another iconic work, that features portraits of Warhol and the other artists who were represented by the famous and influential New York art dealer Leo Castelli. The work consists of 100 boxes, with ten portraits of each artist. The artists depicted are Robert Morris, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Lee Bontecou, Donald Judd, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol himself.

 

Please contact us if you would like more information about the artwork at Surovek Gallery.

 

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October 6, 2020