The Last Supper (Warhol)

The Last Supper is a series of paintings created by the pop artist Andy Warhol (1929-1987) between 1984 and 1986 based on the famed earlier painting The Last Supper (c. 1495-1498) by Leonardo da Vinci.[1]

They were commissioned by the Egyptian born Greek art dealer Alexander Iolas. Warhol's trip to Milan for the works debut was his last voyage out of New York City. In 2017 in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of their Milanese debut the Museo del Novecento in Milan held an exhibition of the works.[2]

Some art scholars including Jessica Beck a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh have posited that they are an artistic response by Warhol to the AIDS crisis.[3][4][5]

The paintings are discussed in depth in "Loving the Alien", the sixth and final episode of the 2022 Netflix docuseries The Andy Warhol Diaries.[6]

References
  1. "Andy Warhol: The Last Supper". Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  2. "Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers | Christie's". Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  3. "Idol Worship: The Brooklyn Museum's Important New Warhol Show Casts the Pop Artist in a Spiritual Light". 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  4. "Andy Warhol: Sixty Last Suppers". May 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
  5. "The Man Who Discovered Warhol". 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  6. "'The Andy Warhol Diaries' explores how the iconic artist was shaped by his great loves". NBC News. 10 March 2022.
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