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Purchased 1971
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<p>celebrity. Th</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2001</em></p>
paper print screenprint
12 May 2000 – 3 March 2002
2002-03-03
12 May 2000 – 3 March 2002
2002-03-03
2000-05-12
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2000-05-12
Andy Warhol: Celebrity and Death
Collection based display
26 March 2002 – 19 January 2003
2003-01-19
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2002-03-26
Pin Up: Glamour and Celebrity Since the Sixties
Collection based display
14 May 2004 – 11 July 2004
2004-07-11
1 May 2004 – 31 July 2004
2004-07-31
2004-05-01
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2004-05-14
Hidden Histories
Loan-out
1 October 2007 – 31 January 2008
2008-01-31
11 October 2007 – 20 January 2008
2008-01-20
2007-10-11
National Portrait Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.npg.org.uk
2007-10-01
Pop Art Portraits
Loan-out
8 October 2008 – 18 January 2009
2009-01-18
8 October 2008 – 18 January 2009
2009-01-18
2008-10-08
Hayward Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.hayward-gallery.org.uk
2008-10-08
Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms
Loan-out
25 July 2015 – 1 November 2015
2015-11-01
25 July 2015 – 1 November 2015
2015-11-01
2015-07-25
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2015-07-25
International Pop Art
Loan-out
9 March 2017 – 31 August 2021
2021-08-31
9 March 2017 – 18 June 2017
2017-06-18
2017-03-09
British Museum (London, UK)
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
2017-03-09
The American Dream: Pop to the Present
Loan-out
17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
17 November 2018 – 2 June 2019
2019-06-02
2018-11-17
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 2 (Edinburgh, UK)
2018-11-17
'I Want to be a Machine': Warhol and Paolozzi
Loan-out
25 September 2021 – 29 January 2022
2022-01-29
25 September 2021 – 29 January 2022
2022-01-29
2021-09-25
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
2021-09-25
Print Goes Pop: Warhol to Paolozzi
Loan-out
[no title]
image: 910 × 910 mm
frame: 932 × 932 × 41 mm
Purchased 1971
<p>celebrity. Th</p>
Display caption
2001-10-31T00:00:00
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DISPLAY_CAPTION
<strong>Andy Warhol</strong> born 1928 [ - 87]
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07121" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07121</span></a>-30 <strong>Marilyn</strong> 1967
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Each print is signed on the back 'Andy Warhol' b.l. and stamped 224/250' b.r.<br/>
Ten screenprints on paper, 36 x 36 (91.4 x 91.4)<br/>
Purchased from the Leo Castelli Gallery (Grant-in-Aid) 1971<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> Factory Additions, New York; with Leo Castelli, New York<br/>
<em>Lit:</em> Rainer Crone, <em>Andy Warhol</em> (London 1970), No.619, p.310 (publisher wrongly given as Leo Castelli); Riva Castleman, <em>Modern Prints since 1942</em> (London 1973), p.134, repr. p.135 in colour
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A set of ten <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screenprints</span></a> in different colours published by the artist and his assistants under the name Factory Additions, New York, in 1967 in an <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a> of 250. This set is no.224.
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Andy Warhol had previously made twenty-three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of Marilyn Monroe in 1962, the year of her death, and a further seven in 1964, all based on the same <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photograph</span></a> showing her face turned slightly to her right, with her lips parted in a smile. Many of these contain a series of repetitions of this image in rows one above another (up to as many as fifty in a picture), with slight variations due mainly to the deliberate irregularity of the screen printing. Several only show repeat images of the mouth and omit the rest of the face altogether.
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Although some of these pictures contain variations in the colouring and, especially in those of 1964, a tendency to divide the face into distinct colour zones, it was only in this series of screenprints made in 1967 that colour became the dominant feature; the image served as the basis for a series of startling colour transformations.
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The principal colours are as follows:
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<span>P07121</span> Background green, hair yellow, face lilac, lips red, eyelids green.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07122" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07122</span></a> Background shocking pink, hair peach, face red, lips yellow, eyelids pink.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07123" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07123</span></a> Background lilac, hair yellow, face blue, lips green, eyelids lilac.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07124" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07124</span></a> Background dull pink and silver, hair oatmeal, face silver, lips shocking pink, eyelids dull pink and silver.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07125" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07125</span></a> Background shocking pink, hair yellow, face peach, lips purple, eyelids shocking pink.<br/>
<strong>P07126</strong> Background turquoise blue, hair green, face shocking pink, lips green, eyelids blue and green.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07127" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07127</span></a> Background green, hair yellow, face green, lips terracotta and purple, eyelids green.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07128" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07128</span></a> Background dull pink, hair brown, face ochre, lips purple, eyelids dull pink.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07129" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07129</span></a> Background blue, hair orange, face lilac, lips silver, eyelids blue.<br/>
<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-no-title-p07130" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07130</span></a> Background dark grey, hair light grey, face pale putty, lips black and grey, eyelids dark grey.
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The photograph used by Warhol as the basis for all his paintings and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> of Marilyn Monroe was a 20th Century Fox still, publicity for the film <em>Niagara</em> 1953, taken by Gene Kornman [reproduced p.761: not reproduced here]. (Information from John Kobal).
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.760-2


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Catalogue entry
2004-09-21T00:00:00
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