
Installation view of KAWS at HOTA's Pop Master's exhibition
Photo: Shannon Johnston, Risen Film
The Ultimate Collection
The works are reflective of the wider collection, which acts like a visual Who’s Who of the industry spanning six decades.
It was with a 1988 purchase of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe (Twenty Times) that the collection began to take shape. Now, the Mugrabis (dad José and his two sons) are regarded by some as the most influential collectors in the world, renowned in auction houses and friends with industry power houses including gallerist Larry Gagosian. As the New York Times puts it, “for the Mugrabis’ preferred artists, the family doesn’t merely operate in the art market; it is the market”.

Installation view of Andy Warhol at HOTA's Pop Master's exhibition
Photo: Shannon Johnston, Risen Film

Installation view of Katherine Bernhardt at HOTA's Pop Master's exhibition
Photo: Shannon Johnston, Risen Film
Gallery Appearances
Though HOTA’s exhibition is the largest of works from the collection to date, pieces also have been lent to other institutions for exhibitions echoing its narrative – the Whitney’s Warhol retrospective or the Barbican’s famed Boom For Real for example.

Andy Warhol's portrait of Aretha Franklin, 1986, is one of the many works depicting Pop icons at the Whitney Museum exhibition
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MUGRABI COLLECTION

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled 1981 from the Mugrabi Collection, displayed in Basquiat: Boom For Real at Barbican, London
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MUGRABI COLLECTION

Left Behind
- 2021
- Inkjet print and pigment-printed silk with hand-collaged elements and UV Print Shield on bamboo paper
- Edition of 10
- Signed and numbered by the artist on the reverse and accompanied by an identifying label
- 25cm x 19cm
- Print mounted in a bespoke UV-protected plexiglass frame
£17,000
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