Andy Warhol Famous Marilyn Monroe Painting
Andy Warhol Famous Marilyn Monroe Painting . This screen prints is from a 1967 series which contained ten variations of the image in. Warhol used a publicity photo for her 1953 film niagara as the source image.the use of two contrasting canvases for marilyn diptych illustrates the contrast between the public life of the star, who at the time was one of the most famous women alive, and her private self. Warhol made his first paintings of marilyn monroe soon after the actor died of a drug overdose on 5 august 1962. He used the same publicity still of the actress that he had previously used for dozens of paintings.