Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

'With flowers, Andy was just trying a different subject matter. In a funny way, he was kind of repeating the history of art. It was like, now we're doing my Flower period! Like Monet's water lilies Van Gogh's flowers, the genre'

(G. Malanga quoted in A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol, New York, 2003, p.74).