The Last Supper (Warhol)

The Last Supper is a series of paintings created by the pop artist Andy Warhol (1929-1987) between 1984 and 1986 based on the famed Last Supper (c. 1495-1498) by Leonardo da Vinci.^[1]

Art dealer Alexander Iolas commissioned the series in 1984. Warhol's January 1987 trip for the debut in Milan was the artist's last voyage out of New York City. Warhol died shortly after the Milan premier, soon followed by the death of Iolas.

The Museo del Novecento held a 2017 exhibition of the works in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of their Milanese debut.^[2]

Some art scholars including Jessica Beck a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh have posited that they are an artistic response by Warhol to the AIDS crisis.^[3][4][5]

The paintings are discussed in depth in "Loving the Alien", the sixth and final episode of the 2022 Netflix docuseries The Andy Warhol Diaries.^[6]

References

1. "Andy Warhol: The Last Supper". Archived from the original on 2021-11-26. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
2. "Andy Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers | Christie's". Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
3. "Idol Worship: The Brooklyn Museum's Important New Warhol Show Casts the Pop Artist in a Spiritual Light". 13 December 2021. Archived from the original on 21 February 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
4. "Andy Warhol: Sixty Last Suppers". May 2017. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
5. "The Man Who Discovered Warhol". 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
6. "'The Andy Warhol Diaries' explores how the iconic artist was shaped by his great loves". NBC News. 10 March 2022.