One of Andy Warhol's characteristic modes of expression as an artist lay in his fondness for taking as his themes famous symbols, trademarks, labels and celebrities. The result was numerous portfolios of figures from politics, art and history. One of these is the 1985 series Reigning Queens, consisting of 16 serigraphs: four colour portraits of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Margrethe II, Queen Beatrix and Queen Ntombi Twala. The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art at Medzilaborce (until 28th July, 1996 the Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art) possesses the last of these works in a form marked TP (trial proof) and signed in tusche at the bottom left. The dimensions are 100.3cm x 80cm. Printed by Warhol on rag paper, this silkscreen proof was one of a series of only thirty, a fact undoubtedly contributing to not only the artistic, but also the monetary value of the work. This print of the Queen Ntombi Twala portrait in the Andy Warhol Museum is numbered TP 26/30. The printer of Warhol's celebrated Reigning Queens portfolio was Rupert James Smith.