To celebrate, the city's Museo del Novecento (in collaboration with the Gagosian gallery) is re-exhibiting one of its key works, the monumental painting
Sixty Last Suppers — on display in the museum's stunning Sala Fontana until May 18.
Andy Warhol:
Sixty Last Suppers at Museo del Novecento, Milan: until May 18, 2017 It's been 30 years since Andy Warhol's final cycle, The Last Supper — inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece of the same title and commissioned by gallerist Alexandre Iolas — made its debut in Milan.
Andy Warhol's
Sixty Last Suppers from 1986 — an outstanding example from the artist's great final painting series, and the largest painting by the American Pop artist ever to come to auction — sold for $ 60,875,000.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987),
Sixty Last Suppers, painted in 1986.
The $ 785,942,250 sale went on with another important sale: Andy Warhol's
Sixty Last Suppers from 1986 went for notable $ 60,875,000, while Cy Twombly's Untitled from 2005 reached $ 46,437,500.
Milan, Museo del Novecento, Andy Warhol:
Sixty Last Suppers, March - May 2017.
Not exact matches
At the Met,
sixty works carefully chosen from the Lehman Collection offered a rapid, staccato trip through the history of European art, distinguished by such spectacular inclusions as a scrupulously observed walking bear by Leonardo da Vinci, from the late quattrocento, a cranky Dürer self - portrait from about the same time, an exquisite Fra Bartolomeo landscape of figures moving through mountainous terrain, from the very beginning of the cinquecento, and a startlingly intimate, casual study after Leonardo's
Last Supper, drawn in red chalk by Rembrandt in the early 1630s, when he was still in his twenties.