Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) built a practice around repetition, reproduction and the conversion of daily life into image. Working across painting, printmaking, film, photography and publishing, he made the mechanisms of circulation — the screen, the grid, the edition, the press run — as visible as the subjects they carried.

The objects gathered here are the printed residue of that practice’s institutional life: exhibition announcements, gallery posters, invitation cards, catalogues and ephemera issued for presentations of Warhol’s work during his lifetime and in the decades following his death in 1987. Each piece records a specific moment of placement — a gallery, a date, a city — and the particular form through which the work entered public circulation at that point.

Anthony d’Offay, Gagosian, Castelli, Sonnabend, the Tate, the Hayward: the institutions that showed Warhol produced their own printed matter, and that matter now constitutes a secondary archive of his reception. Not the work itself, but the administrative and promotional surfaces through which it moved.

  • Judy Chicago, Woman with Red Flares, 1971–72, invitation recto, Thaddaeus Ropac, 2024 Invitation interior unfolded, artist list left, exhibition title and venue details right

    JUDY CHICAGO — Expanded Horizons: American Art in the 70s, Thaddaeus Ropac, 2024

    JUDY CHICAGO — Expanded Horizons: American Art in the 70s, Thaddaeus Ropac, 2024

  • Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle, Haunch of Venison, London, 2004. Fold-out poster cover unfolded, approx. 59.5 × 42 cm. Red ground. Large-scale black line drawing of hammer and sickle — hammer head upper left, sickle blade upper right, handles crossing at centre; bold contour lines with hatched shading throughout; small signature or notation lower right. Horizontal and vertical fold lines visible as issued. Interior spread, Andy Warhol, Hammer and Sickle, Haunch of Venison, London, 2004. White ground. Two colour plates side by side. Left: Still Life (Hammer and Sickle), 1977 — graphite and wash on ivory wove paper, 28 × 40½ in, 71 × 104 cm; hammer and sickle in red wash with graphite outline, white ground. Right: Still Life (Hammer and Sickle), 1977 — graphite and wash on ivory wove paper, 27⅛ × 41 in, 71 × 104 cm; similar composition, red wash more saturated. Red cloth binding visible at left edge.

    ANDY WARHOL — Hammer and Sickle, Haunch of Venison, London, 2004

    ANDY WARHOL — Hammer and Sickle, Haunch of Venison, London, 2004

  • Cover of Art and Artists, Vol. 1, No. 11, February 1967, London: Hansom Books. Offset lithograph, 27.5 × 21.2 cm. Large modernist masthead 'art and artists' in black on white ground. Cover image: Andy Warhol, Flowers — four hibiscus blooms in orange, hot pink, and peach on dark green silkscreened ground. Price: 5s $1. Light rubbing and edge wear visible. Interior spread of Art and Artists, Vol. 1, No. 11, February 1967. Left page: colour reproduction of John Walker, Antilled, 1966, acrylic on canvas, 91 × 15 cm, Amon Gallery, showing three green ovoid forms on purple ground. Right page: London column 'In a Perfumed Garden' with black-and-white reproduction of Colin Self, Cinema 14 and Astroid, 1965, Gravure and acrylic, 22 × 30 in, Robert Fraser Gallery. Dense two-column critical text throughout.

    ANDY WARHOL — Art and Artists, Vol. 1, No. 11, February 1967

    ANDY WARHOL — Art and Artists, Vol. 1, No. 11, February 1967

  • Original 1998 Andy Warhol Stitched Photographs 1976–86 exhibition poster, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London. Full sheet showing dense grid of repeated black-and-white photographic images — storefronts, street signs, bodies, chairs, cups, hangers and urban details — with exhibition title and gallery details printed along the lower edge. 42 × 59.4 cm, offset on lightweight paper, folded into eight panels. Image 2 (detail — upper): Detail showing repeated grids of Palm & Tarot Card Readings storefront signs and television screen photographs.

    ANDY WARHOL — Stitched Photographs 1976–1986, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1998

    ANDY WARHOL — Stitched Photographs 1976–1986, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, 1998