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POP ART

The John and Kimiko Powers Collection

April 20–June 30, 2001
980 Madison Avenue, New York

Andy Warhol, 200 Soup Cans, 1962 Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 72 × 100 ¼ inches (182.9 × 254.6 cm)Copyright Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc

Andy Warhol, 200 Soup Cans, 1962

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 72 × 100 ¼ inches (182.9 × 254.6 cm)
Copyright Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc

Roy Lichtenstein, Wall Explosion 1, 1965 Enamel on steel, 80 × 84 inches (203 × 213 cm)

Roy Lichtenstein, Wall Explosion 1, 1965

Enamel on steel, 80 × 84 inches (203 × 213 cm)

Claes Oldenburg, Drum Set, 1967 Mixed media, 48 × 72 × 84 inches (121.9 × 182.9 × 213.4 cm)

Claes Oldenburg, Drum Set, 1967

Mixed media, 48 × 72 × 84 inches (121.9 × 182.9 × 213.4 cm)

Claes Oldenburg, Feasible Monument for Grant Park Chicago: Memorial to Louis Sullivan (model), 1969 Cardboard, painted and shellacked, 14 × 23 ¼ × 27 inches (35.6 × 59.1 × 68.6 cm)

Claes Oldenburg, Feasible Monument for Grant Park Chicago: Memorial to Louis Sullivan (model), 1969

Cardboard, painted and shellacked, 14 × 23 ¼ × 27 inches (35.6 × 59.1 × 68.6 cm)

Mel Ramos, Miss Cornflakes, 1964 Oil on canvas, 72 × 60 inches (182.9 × 152.4 cm)

Mel Ramos, Miss Cornflakes, 1964

Oil on canvas, 72 × 60 inches (182.9 × 152.4 cm)

Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude #50, 1963 Mixed media, collage and assemblage (including working radio) on board, 48 × 36 × 3 inches (122 × 91 × 8 cm)

Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude #50, 1963

Mixed media, collage and assemblage (including working radio) on board, 48 × 36 × 3 inches (122 × 91 × 8 cm)

Jasper Johns, Map, 1965 Charcoal and oil on canvas, 44 × 70 ½ inches (111.8 × 179.1 cm)

Jasper Johns, Map, 1965

Charcoal and oil on canvas, 44 × 70 ½ inches (111.8 × 179.1 cm)

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of Pop art from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection, the second in a series dedicated to the memory of John Powers.

The Powers are well known in international art circles for their insightful, highly personal, and astonishingly comprehensive collection of contemporary art. In their many years of collecting, the Powers have amassed what is considered to be the most impressive collection of Pop art in private hands, which in many ways is an extension of the friendships they formed with all of the artists in their collection.

The exhibition will include such masterpieces as Andy Warhol’s 200 Soup Cans, James Rosenquist’s Lenai, Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Drum Set, Tom Wesselmann’s Great American Nude #50, Roy Lichtenstein’s Varroom, Mel Ramos’s Miss Cornflakes, and Jim Dine’s My Long Island Studio. The exhibition will also include influential pre-Pop works such as Robert Rauschenberg’s Broadcast and Jasper Johns’s White Alphabets.

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany this noncommercial exhibition, with essays by Germano Celant, Rainer Crone, Jim Dine, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Judith Goldman, Dave Hickey, Linda Norden, Lane Relyea, Scott Rothkopf, and David Shapiro.

Dorothy Lichtenstein and Irving Blum stand next to each other in front of Roy Lichtenstein's studio in Southampton, New York

In Conversation
Irving Blum and Dorothy Lichtenstein

In celebration of the centenary of Roy Lichtenstein’s birth, Irving Blum and Dorothy Lichtenstein sat down to discuss the artist’s life and legacy, and the exhibition Lichtenstein Remembered curated by Blum at Gagosian, New York.

Alison McDonald, Daniel Belasco, and Scott Rothkopf next to each other in front of a live audience

In Conversation
Daniel Belasco and Scott Rothkopf on Roy Lichtenstein

Gagosian and the Art Students League of New York hosted a conversation on Roy Lichtenstein with Daniel Belasco, executive director of the Al Held Foundation, and Scott Rothkopf, senior deputy director and chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Organized in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth and moderated by Alison McDonald, chief creative officer at Gagosian, the discussion highlights multiple perspectives on Lichtenstein’s decades-long career, during which he helped originate the Pop art movement. The talk coincides with Lichtenstein Remembered, curated by Irving Blum and on view at Gagosian, New York, through October 21.

Steve Martin playing a banjo

Roy and Irving

Actor and art collector Steve Martin reflects on the friendship and professional partnership between Roy Lichtenstein and art dealer Irving Blum.

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.

Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol: Silver Screen

In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosian in Paris.

Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2023

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2023

The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.