RICHARD HAMILTON (B. 1922)

My Marilyn (Waddington 59)

细节

RICHARD HAMILTON (B. 1922)
My Marilyn (Waddington 59)
screenprint in colors, 1965, on T H Saunders, signed and dated '66' in pencil, numbered 29/75 (there was also an unrecorded number of artist's proofs), published by Editions Alecto, London, with wide margins, pale time staining at the margin edges, a tiny loss at the lower left margin corner, a few soft handling creases and occasional minor soiling, otherwise generally in good condition, framed
Sc. 20 3/8 x 24¾ in. (517 x 628 mm.)
S. 24 9/16 x 32 7/8 in. (624 x 834 mm.)

拍品专文

Hamilton's important screenprint of images Marilyn Monroe, rejected negatives that she actually X'ed out herself, were printed in a British magazine shortly after her death. He made screens of the imagery by blowing up the magazine page. His intention was that 'since the basis of the print was a group of photographs with markings made by Marilyn's hand, it became an objective of the prints to produce a painterly result without actually making marks with mine'. It is interesting to compare his choice of Marilyn imagery with that of Andy Warhol's (see lots 499-503), both done in the mid-1960's.