Andy Warhol, 11.29- Marilyn Monroe, None

“In August 62 I started doing silkscreens. I wanted something stronger that gave more of an assembly line effect. With silk-screening 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 Marilyn’s.” Andy Warhol based this portrait on a film still from the 1953 production Niagara. In 1967, he released a limited quantity of 10 screen prints using this portrait. Many hoped that he would release another edition, but Warhol was disinterested, prompting Sunday B. Morning to produce an edition of unauthorized prints. These became so popular that they now continue to print them from the original screens. Sunday B. Morning color screen-prints are printed on museum board with the highest quality archival inks and are stamped in blue ink: 'Published by Sunday B. Morning' and 'fill in your own signature,' on verso.

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Splash of Summer: A Group Exhibition

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Andy Warhol American, 1928-1987

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