Anthony Grant with his Orange Prince.

image? To me, it enhances it. I’ve had a whole lot of fun with this.”

It’s not just the colour framing of one of Grant’s Warhol prints that is making it stand out at the moment, however. Orange Prince, one image in a series of 16 Warhol made of the singer in 1984, was the subject of a controversial US Supreme Court decision this month, when justices ruled the portrait was an infringement of copyright.

Warhol’s Prince series was made after Vanity Fair commissioned him to make an image of the singer using Goldsmith’s photo, for which they paid a one-off licensing fee at the time. The photographer did not know about the 15 additional works Warhol made, however, until Orange Prince was used on the cover of a commemorative magazine after the singer’s death in 2016.

Grant says the Supreme Court decision is a controversial one, affecting the way artists can modify another person’s work.

“Warhol modified photographs of Marilyn Monroe and others and turned them into some of the most expensive artworks of all time,” he says. “This assessment shows no understanding of the transformative powers that Warhol had with portraiture.”

Grant is not worried by the decision himself, however, and says he will continue to display his limited edition Orange Prince print in the Sculptureum galleries, not least because the Supreme Court expressed no opinion on the “creation, display or sale” of the Prince series works.

“I shall be putting a descriptor panel alongside it shortly to show the photograph from which it was derived, so that people can make their own assessment of whether Warhol made fair use of the photo, and so that they can see that the Warhol work is far superior to the photograph from which it was derived,” he says. “I think it will fulfil an educational function.”

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