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Marilyn (Tate)-Andy Warhol-1

In 1967, Warhol established a print-publishing business, Factory Additions, through which he published a series of screenprint portfolios on his signature subjects. Marilyn Monroe was the first one. He used the same publicity still of the actress that he had previously used for dozens of paintings. Each image here was printed from five screens: one that carried the photographic image and four for different areas of colour, sometimes printed off-register. About repetitions Warhol said: Published by Tate Galery Publications (Millbank, London), the present offset lithograph was used to promote the 1971 exhibition of Andy Warhol paintings and prints at the Tate Gallery in London. It features Warhol's iconic Marilyn Monroe image from 1962, boldly signed by Warhol in marker. 

“ The more you look at the same exact thing, the more the meaning goes away, and the better and emptier you feel. „

Andy Warhol