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MoMA, Floor 4, 412 The David Geffen Wing. Marilyn Monroe was a legend when she died of a drug overdose in August of 1962, but in retrospect her life seems a gradual martyrdom to the media and to her public. After her death, Warhol based many works on the same photograph of her, a publicity still for the 1953 movie Niagara.
Warhol engaged the image of Marilyn Monroe in variety of works, beginning with Gold Marilyn Monroe (Museum of Modern Art, New York) made in August 1962, shortly after the actress’ death. Rather than using a contemporary image, however, he chose a publicity photograph for the film Niagara (1953), which he then cropped to bring her features ...
Nov 20, 2004 · Marilyn Monroe. Department. Drawings and Prints. Andy Warhol. Untitled from Marilyn Monroe. 1967. One from a portfolio of ten screenprints. composition and sheet: 36 x 36" (91.5 x 91.5 cm). Factory Additions, New York. Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc.,
Oct 24, 2010 · The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA is pleased to announce Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe, an exhibition that captures the spark, sex appeal and sensation that was Marilyn Monroe through the art of Andy Warhol, Allen Jones, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Henri Cartier-Bresson and many others. October 24, 2010 – January 23, 2011.
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) 1967. Due in part to his experience as a highly successful commercial illustrator in the 1950s, Andy Warhol was as much businessman as artist and understood the value of mass production and distribution. By the early 1960s, screenprinting had become the favored medium for commercial printing jobs, such as labels and ...
Andy Warhol * created three Marilyn Monroe* screen print portfolios in 1967, a few years after the actress passed away in 1962. The portfolio of 10 screen prints was one of the first prints Warhol printed and distributed through Factory Additions, New York. The name of this company references to Warhol’s studio known as “The Factory”.
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn) 1967. Due in part to his experience as a highly successful commercial illustrator in the 1950s, Andy Warhol was as much businessman as artist and understood the value of mass production and distribution. By the early 1960s, screenprinting had become the favored medium for commercial printing jobs, such as labels and ...
