"Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn)"
Screenprint in colours, 1967, signed with initials and dated -67 in pencil. Trimmed circa 7 cm along the the left side, numbering on verso therefore missing. Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc./Du-Art Displays, New York, published by Factory Additions, New York, 91 x 84.5 cm.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Lars and Maria Knutsson.
Thence in descent.
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No numbering due to trimmed sheet.
The complete series Marilyn, consisting of 10 screenprints in different colour variations, was acquired by the founder of the legendary denim brand Gul & Blå, Lars Knutsson, and his wife Maria Knutsson directly from Andy Warhol. Warhol was in Stockholm in connection with his first major retrospective exhibition at the Moderna Museet. When he visited Gul & Blå's store, he was captivated by their pop-inspired fashion and convinced them to exchange clothes for the iconic Marilyn motif, which ultimately led to the entire series of 10 color schemes ending up in the possession of Lars and Maria Knutsson. The aesthetics and store decor were a major part of Gul & Blå's brand, and the series was intended to be displayed on a wall in the store. Each piece in the series was numbered 6/250, but in order for them to fit together, some of them were trimmed, including the auctions lot, where the numbering has been cut off.
More about Andy Warhol
American artist, printmaker, and filmmaker. He studied at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1945 to 1949 and began his career as an art director for the magazines Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. His success in the advertising industry led to the Art Directors Club Medal in 1957.
Warhol is considered one of the leading figures of Pop Art. His artistic practice consists largely of portraits, often of well-known individuals, executed in silkscreen technique. He also worked with reproduced documentary images as well as installations in which everyday consumer objects, such as packaging, were given a central role. The underlying idea was that beauty and energy can be found everywhere in modern society, even in things often regarded as banal. As a result, detergent boxes and soup cans became artistic motifs. Campbell’s soup cans and Brillo boxes were transformed through his work into some of the most iconic artworks of the 20th century.
From 1963 onward, he produced and participated in a large number of films in his own studio, The Factory, which simultaneously developed into an important meeting place for New York’s artistic and bohemian scene. Warhol continuously documented his surroundings with a film camera and later also a Polaroid camera. In his so-called Screen Tests, he filmed a number of internationally known figures, including Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Marcel Duchamp, and Salvador Dalí. According to his will, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was established in New York in 1987, and in 1994 The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh.
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