Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, January 20–February 28, 2009

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Paul Taylor: I saw Ileana [Sonnabend] today and asked her what I should ask you, and she said “I don’t know. For Andy everything is equal.”

Andy Warhol: She’s right.

Paul Taylor: How do you describe that point of view?

Andy Warhol: I don’t know. If she said it she’s right.
—“The Last Interview,” 1987

Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by Andy Warhol from the collection of the late Ileana Sonnabend. Individual works from the Sonnabend collection have been lent to various museum exhibitions before, but this will be the first exhibition and catalogue exclusively devoted to this outstanding body of work by Warhol.

A renowned gallerist and dedicated art collector, Sonnabend was an early and fervent supporter of Warhol and presented three important exhibitions of his work at her Paris gallery, where she showed the series Death and Disasters (1964), Flowers (1965), and Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1967). During this time she assembled a private collection of seminal works, acquired directly from Warhol's studio at the time of their making. All but three of the works in the Gagosian Gallery exhibition date from the critical years 1962 to 1965.

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