Ink and dye on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/andy-warhol-2121" aria-label="More by Andy Warhol" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Andy Warhol</a>
Head with Flowers
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
adults
body
flower
head / face
people
plants and flowers
woman
paper unique ink dye
15 May 2009 – 5 July 2009
2009-07-05
15 May 2009 – 5 July 2009
2009-07-05
2009-05-15
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2009-05-15
ARTIST ROOMS 2009: Andy Warhol Drawings
Loan-out
17 April 2010 – 23 October 2010
2010-10-23
17 April 2010 – 23 October 2010
2010-10-23
2010-04-17
Perth Museum & Art Gallery (Perth, UK)
http://www.pkc.gov.uk/
2010-04-17
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Andy Warhol
Loan-out
25 July 2011 – 27 August 2012
2012-08-27
25 July 2011 – 27 August 2012
2012-08-27
2011-07-25
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2011-07-25
Social Sculpture
Collection based display
6 December 2014 – 6 September 2015
2015-09-06
6 December 2014 – 8 March 2015
2015-03-08
2014-12-06
Modern Art Oxford (Oxford, UK)
1 May 2015 – 6 September 2015
2015-09-06
2015-05-01
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (Birmingham, UK)
http://www.bmag.org.uk
2014-12-06
Jeremy Deller - Andy Warhol - William Morris
Loan-out
Head with Flowers
image: 382 × 336 mm
frame: 680 × 550 × 28 mm
<a href="/search?gid=999999788" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">ARTIST ROOMS</a>
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>This illustration is typical of the work for which Warhol became renowned as a commercial artist in New York from the early 1950s. It demonstrates his intuitive blotted-line technique combined with the vibrant colours of the flowers, which bring the image to life. The coloured inks were possibly added at one of Warhol’s colouring parties, hosted at the fashionable Serendipity 3 café after its opening in 1954. He would encourage his friends – some of whom would have helped him create the original illustrations - to colour the works with an inventiveness that adds to their whimsical nature. This process looks forward to the production methods of Warhol’s legendary studio, the Factory, in the 1960s.</p>

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2009-04-16T00:00:00
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adults body flower head / face people plants and flowers woman