Warhol’s Flowers series

Warhol’s Flowers series moves through the diary in two forms: as prints acquired by a collector and as paintings translated into a fashion textile. These brief references trace the work beyond the studio, into private collecting and a dress worn at dinner by Liza Minnelli.

Prints in a Private Collection

During a visit to the Kuwaiti collector Fahad al Dabbous, Warhol noted that he had bought the Marilyn and the Flower prints. The Flower prints were part of a larger domestic display that included several paintings by Salvador Dalí. The entry gives no title, price, or account of how the prints were arranged, but it records their presence as owned works among a collector’s art.

A Painting Recast as Fabric

At a separate dinner, Liza Minnelli wore a dress Halston had made from fabric based on Warhol’s Flower paintings. The diary identifies the design source and the chain of transformation: paintings supplied the basis for a textile, and the textile became a garment worn in company. The series thus appears not only as work to collect, but as imagery adaptable to fashion.

Two Routes Beyond the Studio

The references place the Flowers imagery in contrasting settings: the collector’s walls in Kuwait and a social dinner where Minnelli’s dress made the paintings’ design visible on clothing. One instance records acquisition; the other records adaptation and wear. The diary offers no description of the flowers themselves, so its emphasis falls instead on the series’ circulation through people and objects—as prints held in a collection and as a pattern carried into dress.