Facts about Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych
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Measuring roughly 205 by 290 centimeters in total, Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych is a large-scale work whose size amplifies the visual impact of its repeated imagery.
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Silkscreen printing was the technique Warhol used to create Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych, sourcing the image from a 1953 promotional photograph taken for the film Niagara.
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Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych consists of 50 repeated images of Monroe arranged across two canvases, exploring themes of celebrity, mass reproduction, and mortality.
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The iconic work is held in the collection of Tate Modern in London, where it remains one of the museum's most recognizable pieces.
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Painted shortly after Marilyn Monroe's death in 1962, Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych contrasts brightly colored panels with black-and-white silkscreen repetitions of her image.