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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn)

Fermé25 October 2018

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ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn)
screenprint, on wove paper, circa 1978, a rare unpublished proof (there was no edition), with the artist's copyright stamp, printed by Rupert Jasen Smith, New York, with the 'Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board' ink stamp and inscribed 'A135.095' in pencil on the reverse, the full sheet, some very pale staining in places in the margins, otherwise in very good condition, framed
Image: 18 1/8 x 14 in. (460 x 356 mm.)
Sheet: 22 3/8 x 17 ½ in. (569 x 444 mm.)

Note du spécialiste

This screenprint was created in the late 1970s at approximately the same time as the artist's painted Reversal series.

'Warhol’s Reversals recapitulate his portraits of famous faces but with the tonal values reversed. As if the spectator was looking at photographic negatives, highlighted faces have gone dark while former shadows now rush forward. The reversed Marilyns, especially, have a lurid otherworldly glow, as if illuminated by internal footlights’

(David Bourdon in Warhol, New York, 1989, p. 378.)