"It's a good day when somebody gives you 13 Andy Warhols. And what's nice is many of them are super-iconic like the Marilyn Monroes. Those are something you see all the time, the kind of poppy art ones where Marilyn Monroe looks kind of like a drag queen. When you get a series of those, it's iconic people walk in and they say: `I've seen that before!' And that's kind of cool."
"He's the one who basically takes cartoon art and pop art and zooms in and takes one still and then updates it. And the great one is `Sweet Dreams Baby'"
More than 450 modern and contemporary works were donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario by the family of late Toronto patrons Carol and Morton Rapp. The collection is primarily prints, drawings and photographs from the late 1960s and 1970s and the early 21st century. Highlights include 13 Andy Warhol screen prints, four Marilyn Monroe portraits, a bold 1967 Warhol silkscreen in yellow and red, and three works on paper by Roy Lichtenstein including a 1965 silkscreen from his Pop Artists series. The gallery expects the gift to be transformative and anticipates public display in about two years.
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