A set of limited edition prints of The Queen by the
artist Andy Warhol are to go on display at Windsor Castle.
The four
brightly coloured images were acquired by the Royal Collection in May and will
be exhibited in The Queen: Portraits Of A Monarch from November.
A limited run
of 30 sets of the "Royal Edition" prints were made, coated with
particles of diamond and crushed glass.
Royal librarian
Jane Roberts described them as "huge, extremely colourful and very
striking".
The portraits,
each measuring 39in (100cm) by 31.5in (80cm), were created in 1985 as part of a
series called Reigning Queens.
Warhol used a
photo taken in April 1975 by photographer Peter Grugeon to create the artwork.
The Royal
Collection owns set 14. Recently Sotheby's sold set 25 for £109,250.
Ms Roberts
said: "The Warhol prints of the Queen are in many ways the most important
popular image of the Queen to be created by an artist print maker over the last
few decades.
"What Andy
Warhol did with print making was very new, and particularly in these images
where he uses the same outlines and applies different colourways to it, which
is something very personal to him. It's playing around with an image in a way
which is entirely new."
She added:
"Warhol produced these prints in these different colourways with the
intention that they should be seen together as a set, reacting off each
other."
The new
exhibition at Windsor Castle presents the paintings alongside a selection of
official, commissioned and formal portraits of The Queen from her six decades
on the throne. It will continue until 9 June next year.
Source:
BBC
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