Take advantage of your stay in one of our Parisian hotels to discover a unique exhibition: a selection of works of the “Pope of Pop”, Andy Warhol.
A gallery of 250 portraits painted and photographed by Andy Warhol at The Factory, his studio in New York, is presented at the Grand Palais until July 13th. In 1962, Andy Warhol painted the portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor, and reinterpreted the Mona Lisa.
From 1967 to his death, in 1987, he produced commissioned portraits of dozens of personalities, famous or obscure. Artists, film and rock stars, collectors and art dealers, politicians, fashion designers, businessmen and jet-setters… All of them were gleaming through Warhol’s genius. With this cycle, Warhol depicts an entire society and invents a new form of artistic production, almost mass produced. From the early 1970s, Warhol developed a systematic process: he made up his models, photographed them with a Big Shot Polaroid, and finally painted and silk screened the portraits.
The selection of portraits is here presented by themes focusing on Warhol’s series: Self Portraits, Screen Tests, Mao, Dollars, Disasters and The Last Supper, which situate them in a retrospective view of his production.
With the aim of recreating the effect of the principle of repetition which Warhol had in mind when he painted them, the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais is presenting, for the first time, this large set of paintings which constitutes an unprecedented archive in the history of painting and photography.
“All my portraits have to be the same size, so they’ll all fit together and make one big painting called Portraits of Society. That’s a good idea, isn’t it? Maybe the Metropolitan Museum would want it someday.” – Andy Warhol
Useful informations
Opening hours: everyday except Tuesdays, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Thurdays to 8 p.m.)
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
Métro : Champs Elysées Clemenceau or Frankin Roosevelt (1, 9, 13) / Bus : 28, 32, 42, 49, 72, 73, 80
(Source : rmn)
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