Ink and dye on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
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ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
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Christmas Sewing Theme
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
Christmas
domestic
fir
furnishings
Judaeo-Christian imagery
ladder
mirror
objects
people
religion and belief
scissors
sewing
sewing machine
tools and machinery
woman
work and occupations
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
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
Christmas Sewing Theme
support: 390 × 230 mm
frame: 525 × 393 × 38 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 in the 1950s. It demonstrates his intuitive blotted-line technique combined with vibrant colours 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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adults Christmas domestic fir furnishings Judaeo-Christian imagery ladder mirror objects people religion and belief scissors sewing sewing machine tools and machinery woman work and occupations