Exhibitions: Andy Warhol: The Last Decade

Andy Warhol: Double $5/Weightlifter

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987). Double $5/Weightlifter, 1985–86. Acrylic on linen, 116 x 216 ½ in. (294.6 x 549.9 cm). The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. © 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

In the larger Black & White Ads like this one, Warhol painted directly on the canvas, tracing over a projection of an advertisement. In technique and appearance, these works revert to Warhol’s earliest hand-painted Pop paintings.