Signed Tate Gallery Poster Andy Warhol

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Signed by Andy Warhol. Marilyn Monroe, Tate Gallery Poster.
Unknown edition.

Signed in marker pen lower right by Warhol. Published for Warhol's London exhibition at the Tate Gallery, 17 February - 28 March 1971. Printed by the Curwen Press, London. The original painting of this image sold for 158,000,000 at Christie's, New York, the highest price ever paid for a work by Warhol.

Four colour process lithograph on art paper. Sheet size 76.2 x 50.8 cm. Framed size: 94 x 68.5 cm.
Light creasing mainly to edges, otherwise a bright image. Presented in a black frame with conservation acrylic glazing.

Andy Warhol was one of the most prolific and popular artists of the 1960s Pop art movements. From a young age, Warhol was enamoured by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, which led him to produce a series of celebrity portraits. Amongst these was Marilyn Monroe, who became an icon of American pop culture. Warhol was fascinated by her fame and immortalised her with a series of now iconic silkscreens.

By repeating Marilyn’s face as a visual motif (much like his Campbell's Soup Cans) he played with the idea of creating an icon out of an icon.

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