Andy Warhol's 'Marilyn Diptych' (1962), painted weeks after Marilyn Monroe's suicide, silkscreens a publicity photograph fifty times across two canvases: brilliantly coloured at the left, fading to monochrome and near-illegibility at the right. Produced for his breakthrough solo show at the Stable Gallery in New York, it distils celebrity, death, and the emptiness of mass-media reproduction. Acquired by Tate in 1980, it is one of the defining American paintings in Tate Modern.

Exhibition Venue

Tate Modern

London, United Kingdom

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