His most ambitious was a five-by-six grid called Thirty Are Better Than One.

FORBES: If Every Artist Were As Good As Andy Warhol, Forgery Would Be Unnecessary [Book Excerpt]

In Thirty Are Better Than One, the Mona Lisa is reduced to a pattern, like paisley or toile de jouy: perfectly flat, potentially infinite.

FORBES: If Every Artist Were As Good As Andy Warhol, Forgery Would Be Unnecessary [Book Excerpt]

Thirty Are Better Than One is not really about the Mona Lisa or even about art, but rather concerns the tortuous relationship between culture and media, a relationship beginning to play out in his own life as he became the first meta-celebrity.

FORBES: If Every Artist Were As Good As Andy Warhol, Forgery Would Be Unnecessary [Book Excerpt]