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Andy Warhol, [no title] 1967
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./ARS, NY and DACS, London 2009
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In Marilyn Monroe, Warhol found a fusion of two of his consistent themes: death and the cult of celebrity. The star died tragically in August 1962. In the following two years, Warhol made thirty silkscreen paintings of her, always using the same publicity photograph from the 1953 film Niagara. This set of ten screenprints was produced in 1967, in an edition of 250. The repeated image serves as the basis for a series of startling colour transformations.
September 2004
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