Andy Warhol’s Erotic Male Drawings Shunned In The 50s Make First Public Display
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Andy Warhol’s never-before-seen erotic drawings of men will be up for display in an exhibition of the artist’s work at London’s Tate Modern, and will later be published in a book titled Andy Warhol: Early Drawings of Love, Sex and Desire.
The drawings delve into sexual themes relating to love and lust by depicting young men in intimate moments, from affectionate embraces to X-rated scenarios. These works, unfortunately, never made it to the public eye.
Warhol had attempted to put up these works for an exhibition, but was shunned by the gallery owners’ homophobic stance back in the 1950s, when he was just a commercial illustrator striving to become a full-fledged artist. Warhol later went on to achieve international fame through his work in pop art and prints of film stars.
The venereal drawings will now be presented in a book consolidated by Michael Dayton Hermann from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, which will be set to release later this year.
20 of the illustrations will also be exhibited for the first time during Tate Modern’s Warhol retrospective in London from 12 March 2020 to 6 September 2020.
Standing Male Torso (1957) - Andy Warhol. @TASCHEN will publish a book of Warhol's erotic drawings of men from the 1950s, many of which have never been seen before - lovely! #LGBTHM20 pic.twitter.com/HZHjLqlU8s
— Michael Langan 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇵🇹 (@mlanganwriter) February 17, 2020
Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be seen for first time. https://t.co/fX2mXLXA9U #Art pic.twitter.com/hUHCb19yqH
— A-sideB-side Gallery (@Aside_Bside_) February 17, 2020
Andy Warhol's 1950s erotic drawings of men to be shown for first time
— Skot Armstrong (@SkotArmstrong) February 16, 2020
Collection lined up for Tate Modern not displayed before due to homophobia artist encountered https://t.co/3A26wbnqLh pic.twitter.com/lzsKExYl0E
[via Happy Mag, cover image via National Archives and Records Administration / Public domain]
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