Unseen Andy Warhol: exhibition in Oxford

The show will display paintings, sculptures, screen prints and drawings on loan from the private collection of Andrew and Christine Hall and the Hall Art Foundation, founded in 2007 in the USA.

Dr Alexander Sturgis, director of the Ashmolean, says: “We are hugely grateful to the Hall Art Foundation and to Andy and Christine Hall for making this exhibition possible with the generous loan of their superb collection.

“The substance and significance of Andy Warhol’s art becomes more evident with each passing decade and this exhibition aims to add to what we know about Warhol by highlighting unfamiliar and surprising works from across his career.”

The exhibit includes iconic works from the ‘60s to experimental art from later in his life.

There will also be viewings of films such as Sleep (1963) and Empire (1964), which are on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, America.

Curator, Sir Norman Rosenthal, says: “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.

“The Hall’s collection of Warhols demonstrates the artist’s extraordinarily diverse output, as he reacts to his world with penetrating truthfulness and wit.”

A catalogue with essays by Sir Norman and Eric Shiner, director of the Andy Warhol Museum and an interview with Andrew Hall will accompany the exhibition.

It is the fourth time the fourth partnership of the Hall Art Foundation and Ashmolean Museum since 2013, but the first to be held in the John Sainsbury Exhibition Gallery.

Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Beaumont Street, Oxford. Thursday, February 4, until Sunday, May 15. Details: 01865 288163, ashmolean.org.