Andy Warhol
Voyages avec Warhol

This Summer, Château La Coste is pleased to present Voyages avec Warhol, a series of rare and unique photographic works by American pop art icon Andy Warhol from the James R. Hedges, IV Collection. This selection of more than 40 works brings together examples of the many subject matters that Warhol explored in his prolific career, from the fetishistic to the banal, and from the celebrity glamour of New York to his rural Montauk estate, highlighting the enormous importance of photo-making in the artist’s life.

Warhol’s lifelong interest in photography stemmed from his childhood when he had a dark room in the basement of his parents’ home. As an adult, the artist not only used the camera to document his social life and travels, but also relied on it as a tool to create nearly all his works in other mediums, such as paintings and prints. 

Voyages avec Warhol presents works from across the artist’s career, inviting the viewer to dive into his world and mind, a gateway to explore his passions and curiosities. For example, Warhol is an undeniably queer artist and his fascination with the male nude was most evident in the making of his 1977 series ‘Sex Parts and Torsos’, a selection of which are featured in the exhibition. One of the more profound and personal aspects of his output, this figurative series portrays extreme close-ups of male models in either classical (“Torsos”) or erotic poses (“Sex parts”) and became important source material for prints and paintings of the same subjects