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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe

Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe
Artist: Andy Warhol 
Title: Marilyn Monroe
Medium: Screenprint
Edition: 250, 26 AP
Size: 36" x 36"
Year: 1967
Catalogue: II.23
Markings: Signed in pencil & numbered with rubber stamp on verso
Some signed in ball-point pen, initiallized on verso, or dated AP signed & lettered A-Z on verso In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silkscreening you pick a photograph, blow it up, transfer it in glue onto silk, and then roll ink across it so the ink goes through the silk but not through the glue. That way you get the same image, slightly different each time. It was all so simple quick and chancy. I was thrilled with it. When Marilyn Monroe happened to die that month, I got the idea to make screens of her beautiful face the first Marilyns. Andy Warhol created several “mass-produced” images from photographs of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Onassis.
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