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Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962
Andy Warhol
Offset Lithograph signed in the plate
91.5 × 61 cm
Famous Andy Warhol offset lithograph in mint condition!
Authorized by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Designed in 2013 by McGaw Graphics, Inc. Edition details are listed at the bottom of the plaque.
Description: Marilyn Monroe was a legend when she committed suicide in August 1962, but in retrospect, her life seems to have been one of gradual martyrdom for the media and her public. After her death, Warhol based many works on the same photograph of her, a publicity still for the 1953 film Niagara. He painted the canvas with a single color—turquoise, green, blue, lemon yellow—then silkscreened Monroe's face over it, sometimes alone, sometimes doubled, sometimes multiplied in a grid. The golden field of Gold Marilyn Monroe (the only one of Warhol's Marilyns to use this color) recalls religious icons from the history of Christian art, a resonance that, however, imbues the work with a morbid allure.
By reproducing a photograph of a heroine shared by millions, Warhol denies the sense of the artist's unique personality that was implicit in the gestural painting of the 1950s. He also used a commercial technique, silkscreen printing, which gives the image a sharp, artificial look; even as Warhol canonizes Monroe, he reveals her public image to be nothing more than a carefully structured illusion. Reminiscent of 1950s glamour, the face of Gold Marilyn Monroe is like the star herself: brilliant, yet fleeting; bold, yet vulnerable; compelling, yet elusive. Surrounded by a void, it is like the fade-out at the end of a film.
