Mao 2020 | Framed Set of Four

London-based artist Paul has spent the last decade researching Andy Warhol’s working process and uses Warhol’s original acetates to create his stunning After Warhol collection.

Dubbed ‘posthumous Warhols’ by the world’s leading Warholian authority, Rainer Crone, the artworks were printed in New York by the Pop Art founder’s original screen printer, Alexander Heinrici, and have been lauded by the BBC and VICE Magazine. Find out more about how they’re created here.

This set is inspired by Andy Warhol’s ‘Mao Tse-tung’ series (1973), which depicts the Chinese leader and Communist revolutionary. Warhol was fascinated by the prevalence of his image in the public sphere as a ready-made icon, and with a suggestion from his long-time dealer Bruno Bischofberger created nearly 200 canvases of Chairman Mao in five different sizes.

Included are all four colourways:

• Acra Violet, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Prussian Blue
• Cobalt Blue, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Naphthol Red
• Permanent Green Deep Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium - Naphthol Red
• Yellow Medium Azo, Acra Violet, Prussian Blue