Warhol’s voyeuristic interest in the male body is visible throughout his oeuvre, from films such as ‘Sleep’ of 1963 through to his stitched torso photographs of 1986. This fascination is first evident in his early line drawings of young men from the mid to late 1950s, of which many were included in his ‘Drawings for a Boy Book’ exhibition at the Bodley Gallery in New York in 1956. This drawing displays many characteristics of his earlier works from the fifties, such as stylised, abstracted shapes. However, it was most likely traced from a projected photograph rather than drawn from life. By the 1980s homosexuality was becoming accepted in more parts of America and this work flaunts a more overt eroticism than that which was evident in the earlier drawings.