More than 100 rare and previously unseen works from American cultural icon Andy Warhol are to be displayed in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford next year.
The Guardian reports that the works—including some of the pop artist's films, artworks and sculptures—will be loaned to the museum from private collectors in the U.S.
The works span Warhol's entire career, from his emergence in the 1960s, when he introduced consumer-product imagery into the realm of sculpture, up until his death in 1987. Curated by former head of exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Sir Norman Rosenthal, the exhibition will feature Warhol's Brillo Soap Pads Box piece and a portrait of artist Roy Lichtenstein.
It will also include a series of screen prints of German artist Joseph Beuys—a piece titled Portrait of Joseph Beuys made up of four prints of a Polaroid photograph when the two artists met in 1979, the Press Association (PA) reports.
Rosenthal, who stepped down from the Royal Academy in 2008 after 31 years at the institution, spoke about his contact with Warhol and about the show. "Evermore, Warhol feels like the decisive artist of his generation who peered into the future and saw his world with all its glamour and with all its horror," Rosenthal told PA.
He added: "The Hall's collection of Warhols demonstrates the artist's extraordinarily diverse output, as he reacts to his world with penetrating truthfulness and wit."
Warhol, whose parents emigrated to the U.S. from a region now in Slovakia, began experimenting with mass produced images from American popular culture in the early 1960s. These included Campbell's soup cans and Coca Cola bottles, which became intrinsically linked with the Pop Art movement in the U.S.
After the Warhol show ends in May, the Ashmolean's next exhibition will feature a "flatpack" marble Byzantine Church from a Sicilian shipwreck, as part of an archaeology show called Storms, Wars and Shipwrecks. The 600-piece set made from prefabricated marble elements of basilica were lost in a shipwreck around 550 AD, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reports.
Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection will go on display next spring from February 4 to May 15.
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