Gold Marilyn Monroe

Gold Marilyn Monroe is a screenprint painting by Andy Warhol based on a photograph of the actress Marilyn Monroe's face centered on a large (6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) x 4 ft 9 in (1.45 m)) gold-painted canvas.

[3] The image of Monroe is a direct copy of a close-up photograph, a publicity still from her 1953 film Niagara.

[4] Gold Marilyn Monroe was included in Warhol's first show in New York, at the Stable Gallery in November 1962, where the architect Philip Johnson bought it.

He eventually donated it to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, where it remains.

In 1967 Warhol used the same photograph again for his Marilyn Monroe portfolio a set of ten brightly and differently colored screenprints.