Andy Warhol
This catalogue includes two original works by Warhol; a signed sketch of a Campbell's soup can drawn on the title page of his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, and a silkscreen print of Queen Ntombi Twala of Swaziland, from his series of Reigning Queens.

The major part of this exhibition is a collection of 20 silkscreen prints from the two series known as Marilyn, and Flowers. Both of these series are after Warhol and were produced by Sunday B(loody) Morning, a group that used to work with Warhol in Europe. Initially, the group had suggested to Warhol that a special edition of the Marilyn series could be produced to accompany his European show, but Warhol declined their offer. The group still managed to get Warhol's original screens and went ahead with the first unauthorised edition of 250 prints in the 1970s. Due to popularity of this edition, the group produced subsequent editions, which Warhol was well aware of, and sometimes when he came across these prints he was known to have written on them "This is not by me." Ironically, this annotation has added considerable value to those prints.

The silkscreen prints in this exhibition are stamped in blue ink with "Sunday B. Morning," and "Fill in your signature," a send-up Warhol might have appreciated. Sunday B. Morning used original matrices for Marilyn and Flowers, and produced silkscreens the same size, quality and finish as the original issue by Warhol. The colours do vary slightly from Warhol's prints.

Marilyn Monroe's tragic death in 1962 was the inspiration that lead Warhol to use a publicity shot of Marilyn by Gene Korman for the movie Niagara in 1953 in his paintings and then later in his silkscreen prints in 1967. In 1980 Warhol recalled in his book POPism: The Warhol '60s the beginnings of his passion for silkscreens and using Marilyn Monroe as a subject:

In August '62 I started doing silkscreens. ...I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple - quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. ...When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face - the first Marilyns.

Warhol's Marilyn series has become an icon of the Pop Art era, and his signed prints of her are in great demand, selling from around US $25,000 to over US $100,000 each. The high quality work produced by Sunday B. Morning has created its own commercial market, and is of exhibition standard; the Queensland Art Gallery included a complete set of Sunday B. Morning's Marilyn silkscreens in their recent major exhibition on Warhol.