Where can one admire original prints by Andy Warhol?

Andy Warhol is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known and admired contemporary artists. Through his multifaceted and prolific artistic production, he managed to capture some of the major transformations happening in our society.

This also explains why, recently, Warhol’s screenprint titled Shot Sage Blue Marilyn was sold by Christie’s in New York for 195 million dollars, setting the record as the most expensive contemporary artwork of all time.

However, even those who wish to see Andy Warhol’s graphic works can rest assured. Some of these are, in fact, permanently displayed in some of the world’s most prestigious contemporary art museums.

Starting with the United States, particularly New York and Pittsburgh, his hometown.

Where can you see Andy Warhol’s works in the United States? 

In 1993, six years after his death, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the artist was born in 1928, wanted to honor its native son by inaugurating the largest museum in the world dedicated entirely to Andy Warhol. 

This museum houses, to this day, the largest collection of unique and graphic works by Warhol, along with archival materials. It preserves drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, and even films and videos shot by the artist. 

It is one of the most comprehensive museums dedicated to this artist in the world and the largest in North America. It includes the serial work titled Time Capsules, consisting of 610 containers that Warhol himself filled and sealed. 

Staying across the ocean, other famous graphic works by this great artist, such as Flowers (1964) and Marilyn Monroe (1967), can be admired at the MoMA – Museum of Modern Art in New York, or at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, also located in the Big Apple, where you can find the 1986 self-portraits and works like Electric Chairs (1964) and Orange Disaster (1963). 

If we focus only on authentic and signed graphic works by Warhol, one of the largest selections can be found at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. This museum holds the bold portfolio of colorful screenprints titled Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century, created by Warhol in the early 1980s, as well as a wide selection of his flower drawings and intimate Polaroids of friends and acquaintances from the 1970s. 

Some versions of the vibrant Flowers series (1967-68) and one of his screenprint paintings of Mao (1972) can be found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, while The Broad, a museum dedicated to contemporary art located next to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, houses some of his early cartoons and humorous sketches created when he was still not famous. 

Where can you see Andy Warhol’s works in Asia? 

Moving to Asia, it is possible to admire some interesting works by the father of Pop Art at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul. 

One of the most valuable pieces in this collection is undoubtedly the Forty-Five Gold Marilyns (1979), a haunting and dramatic scaled version in gold screenprint on black canvas, where the blonde Hollywood diva is once again celebrated. 

Where can you see Andy Warhol’s works in Europe? 

Andy Warhol, with his art, has become a source of inspiration for all contemporary artists. It is therefore natural that his works are displayed all over the world, through temporary exhibitions and permanent displays organized at art galleries and museums in major cities worldwide, especially in Europe. 

Some of his most important works, such as Liz Taylor (1965), Skulls (1976), and Gun (1981), for example, are on display at the Tate Modern in London, which is one of the most visited contemporary art museums on the planet and holds the largest collection of this artist’s works. 

The Tate galleries have also acquired some lesser-known but still fascinating unique works, such as Birmingham Race Riot (1963), which provides insight into Warhol’s engagement with the theme of political activism. 

Staying in Europe, unique works and drawings by Warhol can also be admired at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt. Among other things, it also holds some of his conceptual sculptural works from the Brillo Soap Pads Box series from the 1960s. 

That said, to answer the question posed in this article about where to see Andy Warhol’s graphic works in Europe, the answer can only be: at the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce (MMUAW) in Slovakia. 

This institution, founded in 1991, is dedicated to current trends in contemporary art and, in particular, to the life and art of Andy Warhol. Here, you can admire about 200 original graphic works by the founder of Pop Art, some of which come from private collections or belong to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in New York. The works cover all creative periods of the artist, including his dominant artistic themes. 

Where can you see Andy Warhol’s works in Italy? 

Andy Warhol dedicated several works to our country. Among these is one of his Disasters, the triptych FATE PRESTO (1981), in which the headline of the newspaper Il Mattino is reproduced in large letters, following the Irpinia earthquake. 

The affection Warhol had for Italy is reciprocated. In fact, every year, temporary exhibitions and events dedicated to him are organized in numerous regions. Additionally, there are permanent exhibitions in Rome, Naples, and Milan. 

In Rome, for example, you can admire Warhol’s unique work Mother and Daughter. Tina and Lisa Bilotti (Acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas), created in 1981, at the Museo Bilotti, where admission is free. Meanwhile, at the Casa di Goethe on Via del Corso 18, there is a portrait of Goethe made by Warhol in 1982. 

Two graphic works by the great Andy Warhol are also displayed in two important museums in Naples, Capodimonte and Madre. At the Museum of Ancient Art in Capodimonte, which has a section dedicated to contemporary art, you can find Vesuvius (1985), a work created by Warhol to pay tribute to the Neapolitan landscape with the iconic volcano in the background. 

At the Madre, on the other hand, you can admire unique works such as Spalding Soft Ball and Five Campbell’s Soup, everyday objects transformed into works of art according to this artist’s characteristic vision. 

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The Warhol Museum (photo Facebook) 
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