Generosity. The art of giving.

The National Gallery in Prague received a unique gift in the year of its 220th anniversary. The American Andy Warhol Foundation donated it photographs by the Pop Art icon, thus ranking the Gallery among the last ten museums worldwide among which Warhol?s photographic oeuvre was distributed. The photographs, hand-sewn shots and Polaroids form part of the Gallery?s annual exhibition?Generosity. The Art of Giving? and are on display from 23 February. The collection of photographs displayed in the Salm Palace is a cross-section through Warhol?s photographic oeuvre. It not only presents an array of interesting personalities by which the artist would surround himself (such as the actor Angelica Houston, the Pablo Picasso?s daughter, Paloma, and the gallery owner Ivan Karp) but also pictures and details from his everyday life. The hand-sewn photographs composed in the series of four document Warhol?s interest in serial depictions of things, known for instance from the serigraphs of the Campbel soup, referring to consumerism and the influence of mass media.00Exhibition: National Gallery, Salm Palace, Prague, Czech Republic (23.02.2016- )