Following the exhibition Shadows and Other Signs of Life in December 2007 - January 2008, Chantal Crousel Gallery is pleased to present a second series of works on paper – collages and drawings – by Andy Warhol.

The 13 works reunited here under the denominator Crude Icons allow us to enter a more hidden part of the artist’s studio. Some are studies of form, simple or repeated, drawn in graphite or painted with synthetic polymer on paper; others are complex collages, composed of graphite or silkscreen drawings and collaged with colored paper.
We see through them the elaboration of a vocabulary of forms and colors, which are then later combined, superposed, repeated.

All the works have in common a wonderfully simple and confident stroke, rapid execution, vivacity, whose spontaneity is banished in the next step: impression, reproduction, repetition.

Among the works presented here, one recognizes several subjects that have become “icons,” particularly Gem and Trucks.


On the occasion of this exhibition, a catalogue Crude Icons will be published.

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