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Gold Marilyn Monroe

Warhol made this painting the year screen legend Marilyn Monroe committed suicide. He painted the canvas an iridescent gold and silkscreened the star’s face in the center of the composition. Like other paintings by Warhol that feature Monroe’s likeness, this work is based on a 1953 publicity still for the movie Niagara. By duplicating a photograph known to millions, Warhol undermined the uniqueness and authenticity characteristic of traditional portraiture. Instead he presented Monroe as an infinitely reproducible image.

Warhol made this painting shortly after legendary actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe committed suicide in August 1962. It is one of his first photo-silkscreened canvases an...

1962
Silkscreen ink and acrylic on canvas
211.4 x 144.7cm
316.1962
Image © 2019 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Text © MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York

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The Museum of Modern Art
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