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Marilyn Monroe (F&S 26). Color screenprint after Warhol, c. 1970. Edition unknown. Sunday B. Morning, a Swiss publisher, has issued portfoilos of both Warhol's Marilyns and his Flowers. Each print is stamped on the verso, "Fill in your own signature," a reference to Warhol's habit of signing his works on the verso and his use of rubber stamps.
These silk-screens are in the Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonne with details of how Warhol fell out with some of "The Factory" - his studio - and they took the original silkscreens to Belgium where they printed more. Instead of a rubber stamp on the back saying "Andy Warhol" these have a stamp saying "Sunday B Morning" and " Add your own signature here". The very thing Warhol had objected to, i.e. that the signature was more important than the art, had happened to his work.
Sunday B Morning Screen Print of Warhol's famous Marilyn Monroe image from Warhol's original screens. Stamped Sunday B Morning and "Sign your name here" on verso.
An icon of twentieth-century pop art, Warhol began work on the famous portraits of Marilyn Monroe in 1962. He used the medium of silkscreen printing (where fabric is stretched over a frame to hold stencil designs and carry ink onto the paper) to produce iconic portraits, often with repeated imagery of celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Liz Taylor or Marilyn Monroe herself. These silk screens were produced circa 1970 by Warhol's studio, The Factory in New York, who took the screens to Belgium and printed more from them, extending the earlier edition that was signed by Warhol and limited to only 250 prints. These slightly later silk screens are stamped on the verso "Sunday B. Morning" and "Add your own signature here". This series of prints was produced in ten colour schemes.
The celebrated critic Robert Hughes writes on Warhol's fascination with serial images, which he repeats throughout his work like a mantra invoking the commodification of life and love, politics and religion:
"It all flowed from one central insight: that in a culture glutted with information, where most people experience most things at second or third hand through TV and print, through images that become banal and disassociated by being repeated again and again and again, there is a role for affectless art. You no longer need to be hot and full of feeling. You can be supercool, like a slightly frosted mirror…. . Warhol extended it by using silk screen, and not bothering to clean up the imperfections of the print: those slips of the screen, uneven inkings of the roller, and general graininess. What they suggested was not the humanizing touch of the hand but the pervasiveness of routine error and of entropy… ."
(Robert Hughes, American Visions)
Published by Sunday B. Morning. Unsigned set - during printing Warhol argued with his publishers and withdrew from the agreement resulting in many copies being left unsigned. Original silk screen prints, printed in colors from photographic enlargements. In perfect condition.
Unsigned set - during printing
Warhol argued with his publishers and withdrew from the agreement resulting ...

Be sure to buy quality. All prints sold via Sunday B. Morning.com are handmade screenprints on hard paper, using the same techniques as the original prints printed by Andy Warhol and the Factory in the late 60's.
We sometimes find poor quality Marilyn Monroe prints on the market ; that aren't even screenprints at all. Some prints are on light paper, others are offset prints, posters...
We offer you handmade quality that will stand for years. You will not see the difference with the original signed prints from the 60's.
This makes the opportunity to buy something that is regarded as one of the "Art-masterpieces of the 20th century". Own something after Andy Warhol.
This auction goes for this beautifull print. It is one of the most sought after : "the Silver Marilyn Monroe". It is 36" x 36" or 91.4cm x 91.4cm on white hard quality paper. At the back there are the 2 stamps "Published by Sunday B. Morning" and "Fill in your own signature".