Dulwich Picture Gallery has announced its summer exhibition Andy Warhol: The Portfolios, from the Bank of America Collection. The exhibition will focus on the period 1962-1984 during which Warhol focused almost exclusively on the silk-screen printing method. This is the first time the exhibition of 80 works from13 portfolios has visited Europe. The exhibition will include some of the artist’s most iconic imagery, including portraits of Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe, the artist’s self-portrait, still lifes, and mythical or heroic figures such as Superman.

These iconic images are part of the Bank of America Collection, which is one of the most diverse corporate art collections in the world. They have been made available to the Dulwich Picture Gallery as part of the company’s Art in Our Communities® programme. This unique initiative enables museums and non-profit galleries around the world to borrow complete or customised exhibitions at no cost, guaranteeing that the collection is shared with as wide an audience as possible.

Portfolio series featured in the exhibition will include Campbell’s Soup II, Flowers,

Space Fruit: Still Lifes, Endangered Species, Myths and Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century. The Myths portfolio (1981) is perhaps the most intriguing series, based on photos taken by Warhol and produced six years before his untimely death in 1987. Further highlights of the exhibition will include images as diverse as the Wicked Witch of the West, Superman, The Marx Brothers and Franz Kafka as well as Keith Haring’s portfolio Andy Mouse (1986), created as an homage to Warhol, and a haunting photograph of Warhol taken by Robert Mapplethorpe in 1986.

The exhibition will run from 20th June to 16th September, and tickets can be obtained from the Dulwich Picture Gallery's website.