Andy Warhol - Untitled (Mao Tse-Tung series), 1972. Screenprint on paper

From the Tate Gallery, London:

`I’ve been reading so much about China,’ Warhol said. `The only picture they ever have is of Mao Zedong. It”s great. It looks like a silkscreen.` Warhol`s portraits of Chairman Mao coincided with President Nixon`s historic visit to Beijing. Like many of Warhol”s subjects, the Communist leader was a contemporary icon. The official portrait used by Warhol appeared everywhere in China, while American radicals also knew it from the cover of the `Little Red Book`, an anthology of Mao”s quotations.

Source: artpedia