Andy Warhol:
Picture "Shot Orange Marilyn" (1967), framed
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Picture "Shot Orange Marilyn" (1967), framed
Andy Warhol:
Picture "Shot Orange Marilyn" (1967), framed

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limited, 980 copies | screenprint on handmade paper | relief seal | object frame | glazed | size 40.5 x 48.5 cm

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Picture "Shot Orange Marilyn" (1967), framed
Andy Warhol: Picture "Shot Orange Marilyn" (1967), framed

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Picture "Shot Orange Marilyn" (1967), framed

A special Warhol rarity, exclusively available at ars mundi: Andy Warhol's most famous portrait has only been published 980 times in a unique edition. This is a world premiere, as it is the first time that the motif has been published screen printed on handmade paper! In the 1960s, when Andy Warhol discovered a photo print of the film star and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe at a flea market, he did not yet know that he was about to set a milestone in art history. The first time Warhol experimented with serial alienation was through screenprinting. An very soon, he would have created an icon of modern art. Each screenprint bears the embossed relief seal of the Andy Warhol Foundation. The selected fine silver frame with bevel cut passe-partout and colour-coordinated inlay banding shows off the picture to its best advantage and creates a splendid frame for this exclusive edition.
Original: Screenprint with acrylic on canvas.

High-quality reproduction produced by screenprint in 4 colours on handmade paper of 250g with embossed relief seal of the Warhol Foundation. Limited edition of 980 copies. In high-quality object frame. Size 40.5 x 48.5 cm, glazed. © 2001 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Portrait of the artist Andy Warhol

About Andy Warhol

1928-1987

Andy Warhol was America's most famous artist. He was considered a revolutionary, eccentric and inventor of Pop Art, all at once. Art critics praise him with titles that have never been bestowed on any artist before - not even Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali. Alfred Nemeczek comments: "They (the praises) ranged from "pop star" to "pop artist", elevated the "pop genius" to "pop prince" to "prince of pop" and further up to "pop king", "pop tsar" and "grand mogul". But the "Picasso of Pop-art" has also been baptised as "High Priest" and "Pope of Pop"." (Artists - Critical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art)

Warhol was born in Pittsburgh in 1928 and died in New York in 1987. After high school, the son of Czech immigrants went to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh as a working student. In 1949, he settled in New York and three years later he made his debut with his work at the Hugo Gallery. Until that time, he was working as a commercial artist for fashion magazines, designing Christmas cards, LP covers and weather maps for television. Shortly afterwards, however, the artist had the idea of placing everyday objects at the centre of his pictorial motifs. Using the medium of graphic art, he created coveted cult objects.

Some of his best-known works include the silkscreen paintings of the red and white Campbell soup cans and the two-dollar bill. With these works, Warhol radically broke with art tradition in the USA and England from the 1950s onwards and is considered one of the leading figures in the new art movement, called Pop Art.

Alongside Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Tom Wesselman are American representatives who looked for their pictorial themes in the world of advertising, comics and Hollywood superstars. Elvis Presley, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe became icons in Warhol's pictorial repertoire.

Transforming everyday objects into works of art allows them to receive a certain level of attention that they never receive as things that are used over and over again. Warhol's way of photographically reproducing the object demanded that the object itself and nothing else must achieve an effect. The works in which he implemented repetitions of the same motif also require this, but they have an additional effect through the colourful rearrangements.

The artist sees the world as it is and represents it: "I am extraordinarily passive. I take things as they are. I just watch, I observe the world."

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