Andy Warhol (after) - Marilyn Monroe

After Andy Warhol & Sunday B. Morning, Marilyn Monroe (pink), 1967.

Serigraph in color, 91 x 91 cm. On the back stamped: Published by Sunday B. Morning" and "fill in your own signature".

Provenance: Acquired from the publisher.

This print is an authorized version by Sunday B. Morning. The rights for these prints were purchased in the 2000s by the Dutch owners and may officially be reproduced and are therefore authorized.

Biography
The American Pop Art artist Andy Warhol was born on August 6, 1928 as Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents are Slovak immigrants. He initially apprenticed as a window dresser, before studying art history as well as pictorial design, sociology and psychology at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh from 1945 to 1949. He then moved to New York, where he would be known as Andy Warhol.

Until 1960 Warhol worked as a freelance commercial artist for fashion magazines, as an illustrator, and as a window dresser. The Art Directors Club awarded him medals in 1952 and 1957 for his design of newspaper advertisements. In 1952 the Hugo Gallery hosted Warhol’s first exhibition, “Fifteen Drawings Based on the Writings of Truman Capote.”

In 1962 the first series was created with “Campbell’s Soup Cans” and “Coca-Cola Bottles,” as well as screenprints featuring the motif of dollar bills. His studio, where many friends and assistants worked, he called the “Factory.” His art now defined the use of well-known motifs or signs from everyday mass culture, and he employed mechanically serial production methods, such as screen printing, which had previously been considered unartistic.

In 1962 Andy Warhol participated in the exhibition “The New Realists” in New York. In the following years Warhol’s choice of subjects darkened. Series with death and catastrophe images emerged. In the screen printing process and deliberately in the poor image quality of newspaper printing, he chose airplane crashes, traffic accidents, crime, and atomic bomb explosions. Also with the cardboard and wooden sculptures that precisely replicate commercial packaging, Warhol Criticizes consumer and mass culture. With his works, Andy Warhol shaped Pop Art.

In the 1960s Warhol also engaged with the medium of film. He developed a distinctive film aesthetic through simple technique, long static camera setups, and the avoidance of cutting and montage. In 1963 the silent films “Sleep,” “Kiss,” and “Eat,” 1964 “Empire” were created. The following sound films were also shown at the Cannes Film Festival, such as 1966’s “Chelsea Girls.” From 1966 Warhol also worked with the rock band Velvet Underground on shows for nightclubs.

In the 1970s the Pop Art artist transferred Polaroid photographs of famous people onto canvas in screen printing, including portraits such as “Elvis Presley” (1964), “Jackie Kennedy” (1965), “Marilyn Monroe” (1967), and “Mao Tse-Tung” (1972).

In 1968 Andy Warhol was shot and seriously injured by Valerie Solanas. In 1984 Warhol collaborated on projects with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

Andy Warhol died on February 22, 1987 in New York.