Green Marilyn

1962

Andy Warhol

Artist, American, 1928 - 1987

The head and shoulders of a young woman shown against a solid, turquoise-green background fills this stylized, nearly square portrait painting. She faces and looks at us. Her face and neck is a field of orchid purple. Her eyelids are covered in crescent-shaped areas of turquoise above small areas of arctic blue, overlaid over the whites of her eyes and iris. Her full lips are covered with bright scarlet red. Black shading picks out her arched eyebrows, her heavy-lidded eyes, the shadow under her nose, her smiling mouth, the hollows under her high cheekbones and at her temples, and the shadow her chin casts on her neck. She has a mole between her left nostril and the left corner of her mouth, on our right. Her short, wavy hair is swept up from her forehead and overlaid with a field of canary yellow over the black shading that indicates curls along the sides of her face and along the back of her neck. A pear-shaped area of turquoise alongside her neck to our right could be the collar of her shirt. The turquoise background is flecked with a few black vertical lines, especially near the left edge.
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NGA, East Building, EU-407-D, N


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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William C. Seitz and Irma S. Seitz; gift 1990 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1989, no. 207, color repro.

1991

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991, 426-427, color repro.

2008

  • Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008, pl. 13.

Inscriptions

on reverse: Warhol '62

Wikidata ID

Q20195731


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