Andy Warhol’s wigs will go on display at the Tate Modern in London
- Three of Warhol’s hairpieces will go on display for the first time in the UK
- The wigs are part of 100 pieces which will chart Warhol’s transition to art pioneer
- Warhol, who died in 1987, designed toupees which he bought from wig maker
As far as artists go, Andy Warhol’s work was always a cut above.
For it’s not just art that will be on display at an upcoming major Andy Warhol exhibition – but the pop artist’s iconic silver wigs too.
Three of Warhol’s hairpieces will go on display for the first time in the UK at the Tate Modern in London.
A gallery assistant poses with an artwork entitled ‘Self Portrait, 1986’, by Andy Warhol, on March 10
The wigs, on loan from the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, are part of 100 pieces which will chart Warhol’s transition from a ‘shy, gay man from a religious, migrant, low-income household’ to an art pioneer.
Warhol, who died in 1987, designed the toupees which he bought from a wig maker in Times Square.
He is believed to have owned more than 100. Curator Gregor Muir said they were part of his move into a ‘living artwork’ and became progressively more ‘wild’.
The exhibition opens at the Tate tomorrow.