In 1963, twenty-eight European and American artists were busily engaged in the greatest of all Pop Art printmaking projects: a portfolio of lithographs, created in Paris and published in Bern in 1964, called “1-cent Life.” The brain child of Chinese poet-painter, Walasse Ting – he sat in a small back room in Paris of 1961 and quickly wrote sixty-one poems: funny, frequently, scatological, many about an American that he at the time barely knew. For many of the twenty-eight artists, “1-cent Life” caught them at a critical moments in their careers. Printed on double-page spread; two half pages than can be exhibited separately or combined. This iconic print was Andy Warhol's very first depiction of Marilyn Monroe, making it especially significant. Unlike later portrayals, here Warhol has created a series focusing on Marilyn Monroe's dazzling mouth. (Working in series and concentrating on separate body parts, such as a foot, breast or hair was an early pop strategy that Oldenburg, Lichtenstein and Wesselmann all utilized, mimicking the fragmentation found in advertisements, as well as the serialization of modern society.The fragmentation of the form of the lithograph itself, i.e. that it is spread across two, separate half pages, mirrors the very subject matter.)