21 January 2013 Last updated at 11:14

In Pictures: Andy Warhol - Early Drawings

Some 200 early drawings by Andy Warhol have gone on display at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark. Many of the drawings - all from the 1950s - feature subjects that the artist selected and traced from newspapers and magazines.

Pensive Girl resting Head on her Hand, 1951 - Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art Inc

The sketches had been registered by Warhol's posthumous estate and archived in 1990, but were unpublished and since forgotten about. It was only when German gallery owner Daniel Blau approached the estate asking for any unseen work, the drawings were retrieved.

Two Hands Playing Piano, 1954 - Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art Inc

"I'm still going through all of this and discovering one after the other – it is quite a nice undertaking, fascinating," Mr Blau told The Guardian.

The characters featured in the drawings include macho men with attitudes, children in staged postures, girls with dreaming expressions and bourgeois ladies.

Female Head, 1957 - Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art Inc

In total, about 300 drawings were brought out of archive. The whole collection will be published in a book, From Silverpoint to Silver Screen, Warhol: The 1950s Drawings, on 28 January. The drawings will then be available to buy.

Questions All America is Asking, 1953 - Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art Inc

The exhibition runs at the Danish museum until 21 February, when it will then transfer to another gallery in the Netherlands.

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In Pictures: Andy Warhol - Early Drawings

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