Not many people know that the young Andy Warhol was a tireless draftsman. Constantly striving to describe in a few lines the American reality of the ’50s, the artist in the beginning shows a keen desire to reproduce his contemporaries, laying the foundations of a process that will give birth to great critical works of Pop Art.

But one of the questions that revolve around the major exhibition of 300 drawings, open until February 21 at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is located north of Copenhagen, is: why these works have been forgotten? The story is really simple, and with the benefit of hindsight, it is explained in a few words.