Marilyn. 1967.
Silkscreen in colors.
Feldmann/Schellmann/Defendi II. 31. Verso signed and with stamped number. From an edition of 250 copies. On light smooth board. 91.5 x 91.5 cm (36 x 36 in), the full sheet.
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York. Published by Factory Additions, New York.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Rhineland.
Private collection Germany (acquired from the aforementioned in the 1970s).

“Warhol used a shot from the film “Niagara“ from 1953 for the Marilyn series […]. Warhol‘s portrait documents the origin of a legend. It shows how the primary sense of portrait photography, that is the exact illustration of people superimposed and deformed by a secondary sense that sees something different in the depicted person: the perfect creature, fulfillment of sexual desire, the embodiment of the American dream and so on. And it shows – and this is just where the legend begins. Even though the secondary sense may be projection, it is a “true image“, for it is anchored in the “reality“ of a real person. The Marilyns are fictitious and real at the same time, they show a being that is above man and yet is one of them.“ (Michael Lüthy, in: Andy Warhol. Thirty are better than none, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 51 ff).