Marilyn (F. & S. II.31)

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Andy Warhol
Marilyn (F. & S. II.31)
screenprint in colours, 1967, on wove paper, signed in pencil on the reverse, numbered 214/250 (there were also 26 artist's proofs lettered A-Z), published by Factory Additions, New York, the full sheet, the colours still remarkably vibrant, pale scattered foxing, some small nicks and creases at the sheet corners, the sheet fractionally reduced at the lower left corner, minor surface dirt at the sheet edges, backboard staining, framed
I., S. 914 x 914 mm.

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Lot Essay

''I don't feel I'm representing the main sex symbols of our time in some of my pictures, such us Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor, I just see Monroe as just another person. As for whether it's symbolical to paint Monroe in such violent colours: it's beauty, and she's beautiful and if something's beautiful, it's pretty colors, that's all.
Or something.''
Andy Warhol, ''Giant size'', Phaidon 2006, p. 184.

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