Ink and dye on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
ARTIST ROOMS
National Heritage Memorial Fund
Art Fund
Collection
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Ice Cream Dessert
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
food and drink
ice cream
objects
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
Ice Cream Dessert
image: 695 × 428 mm
frame: 910 × 750 × 28 mm
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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>For Warhol food was his “great extravagance” and he had a very sweet tooth, claiming that “all I ever really want is sugar”. This image of an extravagant ice-cream has been depicted in the same way he would complete a fashion illustration - with his blotted-line technique and vivid colours. The ice-cream was almost certainly from the fashionable Serendipity 3 café where Warhol would host colouring parties in the 1950s. 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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food and drink ice cream objects