ID: 700008374 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008374	Record Type: Movable Work
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Marilyn Diptych (painting (visual work); Andy Warhol (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 19...; 1962; Tate Modern ; T03093)

Note: Silkscreen of Marilyn Monroe, who had died in August 1962 by an overdose of barbiturates. In the four months following her death, Warhol made over twenty silkscreen paintings of her, all based on the same publicity photograph from the 1953 film Niagara. Warhol found in Monroe a fusion of two of his consistent themes: death and the cult of celebrity. By repeating the image, he evokes her ubiquitous presence in the media. The contrast of vivid colour with black and white, and the effect of fading in the right panel are suggestive of the star’s mortality.

Titles:

Marilyn Diptych (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

screen print [300178688]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, stencil prints)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1962

Creator Display:

Andy Warhol (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987) [preferred,VP]

painter Warhol, Andy (American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker, 1928-1987) [500006031]

Locations:

Current: Term Not Found (ULAN Candidate) (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: T03093

Credit Line: Purchased 1980

Display Materials: acrylic paint on canvas

	acrylic paint [300015058]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, synthetic resin paint)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Support (each): 2054 x 1448 x 20 mm

Cultures:

American (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Pop (fine arts styles) [300022205] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, <international post-1945 styles and movements>, <post-1945 fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

portraits (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Marilyn Monroe (American actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962) [500342163]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	heads (representations) [300262520]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

Copyright: Image: © 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Right Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London

Provenance: Mr and Mrs Burton Tremaine, New York and Meriden, Conn. (purchased from the artist through the Stable Gallery, New York, 1962). Purchased 1980 (Tate).

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Marilyn Diptych	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) wall label, 2016; accessed 24 February 2018