Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Sixty Last Suppers

Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
Sixty Last Suppers
numbered twice 'PA82.020' (on the overlap); numbered again 'PA82.020' (on the stretcher)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
116 x 393 in. (294.6 x 998.2 cm.)
Painted in 1986.

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Provenance
The Estate of Andy Warhol and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc., New York
Ayn Foundation, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1989, p. 391, no. 446 (illustrated in color).
E. Shanes, Warhol, London, 1993, pp. 134-135 and 144 (illustrated).
Andy Warhol: Art from Art, exh. cat., Cologne, Exhibition hall Edition Schellmann, 1994, pp. 74-77, no. 61, (illustrated in color).
"Goings on About Town; Art," The New Yorker, vol. 70, no. 33, 17 October 1994, p. 26.
J. D. Dillenberger, "Warhol and Leonardo in Milan," Religion and the Arts, vol. 1, no. 1, Fall 1996, pp. 50-53, fig. 12 and 13 (illustrated).
P. Egri, Modern Games with Renaissance Forms: From Leonardo and Shakespeare to Warhol and Stoppard, Budapest, 1996, p. 24.
J. M. Faerna, Andy Warhol, New York, 1997, pp. 56-57, pl. 50 (illustrated in color).
R. M. Herbenick, Andy Warhol's Religious and Ethnic Roots: The Carpartho-Rusyn Influence on His Art, Lewiston, 1997, p. 100.
J. D. Dillenberger, The Religious Art of Andy Warhol, New York, 1998, pp. 116-119, no. 79 (illustrated in color).
J. T. Nealon, Alterity Politics: Ethics and Performative Subjectivity, Durham, 1998, pp. 109-110, fig. 17 (illustrated).
P. Conrad, Modern Times, Modern Places, New York, 1999, p. 715.
L. Cirlot, Andy Warhol, Hondarribia, 2001, p. 71.
E. Shanes, Warhol: The Life and Masterworks, New York, 2004, pp. 188-189 and 207 (illustrated in color).
J. Beck, "Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers," Gagosian Quarterly, Summer 2017, pp. 80-88 (illustrated in color).

Exhibited
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Andy Warhol, June-July 1987.
New York, Dia Center for the Arts, The Last Supper Paintings, September 1994-June 1995, n.p., no. 5.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen/Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Andy Warhol. The Last Supper, May-September 1998, pp. 74-75 and 143, no. 15 (illustrated in color).
New York, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Andy Warhol: The Last Supper, June 1999-Summer 2001.
Abu Dhabi, Arts Abu Dhabi Gallery, RSTW: from the Private Collection of Larry Gagosian, September 2010-January 2011, n.p. (illustrated in color).
Milan, Museo del Novecento, Andy Warhol: Sixty Last Suppers, March-May 2017.