Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, David Hockney and Grayson Perry have created works to give to the Queen on the occasion of her Diamond Jubilee. David Hockney used a drawing of her initials made on an iPad and Emin created a portrait of her on paper. In total 97 works were acquired for the Royal Collection and will be exhibited at Buckingham Palace in 2013.
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The Royal collection has purchased four Andy Warhol screen prints of The Queen of England to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. They will be on view at Windsor Castle later this year. Warhol was famously quoted as saying: “I want to be as famous as the Queen of England.” It is part of a portfolio called “Reigning Queens” from the Royal Edition.

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