Pop goes Paris: Andy Warhol at the Grand Palais

Nearly 150 of Warhol's works are on display at the Grand Palais in Paris Photograph: YOAN VALAT/EPA

The works on display span from the 1960s, when Warhol burst upon the US art scene, to his death in 1987 Photograph: Olivier Laban-mattei/Getty Images

Museum employees prepare to hang Warhol's Ethel Scull 36 Times Photograph: Remy De La Mauviniere/AP

Ethel Scull and her husband Robert were art collectors who bought work by Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein Photograph: Remy De La Mauviniere/AP

The many faces of Ethel Scull Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

The Paris show follows high-profile Warhol exhibitions at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh and the Hayward Gallery in London Photograph: Remy De La Mauviniere/AP

Warhol created many portraits of Mao Zedong, one of which sold for $17.4m at auction in 2006 Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

The artist's other subjects included glamorous Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe and, here, Elizabeth Taylor in a work called Silver Liz Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

Warhol's The American Man (Portrait of Watson Powell) depicts the founder of the American Republic Insurance company Photograph: Olivier Laban-mattei/Getty Images

One of the works in Warhol's Ladies and Gentlemen series Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA

Le Grand Monde d'Andy Warhol is at the Grand Palais in Paris until 13 July 2009 Photograph: YOAN VALAT/EPA