Marilyn

Andy WARHOL: artist
Factory Additions, New York: publisher
Aetna Silkscreen Products Inc, New York: printer

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About the work

Pop art picked up on the insatiable appetites of a media-saturated culture as sources of mass-produced imagery. Andy Warhol’s iconic Pop art representation of Marilyn Monroe (1967) counterpoints the heroic aspirations of the American Abstractionists. In Monroe, who died in August 1962, Warhol found the emblematic expression of his consistent themes: death and the cult of celebrity. In the two years after her death, Warhol made 30 silkscreen paintings of her using the same publicity photograph from the 1953 film, Niagara. He produced a set of ten screenprints in 1967, in an edition of 250. The repeated image serves as the basis for a series of vibrant colour transformations.
Title
Marilyn
Artist/Maker and role
Andy WARHOL: artist
Factory Additions, New York: publisher
Aetna Silkscreen Products Inc, New York: printer
Date
1967
Medium
colour screen-print
Measurements
91.4 x 91.3 cm (sheet)
91.4 x 91.3 cm (bleed edge image)
Credit line
Purchased 1976
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Bisual Arts, Inc/ARS. Licensed by Viscopy, 2011
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
1976/0Q53

This is one of the prints in our collection.

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