Andy Warhol screenprint of Queen Elizabeth II among works on show at exhibition

A restoration fit for royalty. 👑 Andy Warhol’s Queen Elizabeth II (1985), a screenprint from the rare Royal Edition of his Reigning Queens portfolio, has been carefully conserved and reinstalled at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Embedded with ‘diamond dust’ and rooted in Warhol’s fascination with consumerism, celebrity culture, and mechanical reproduction, this work is emblematic of his interest in the commodification of celebrity and, by association, in the commodification of his own imag