Sale: 561 / Contemporary Day Sale, Dec. 07. 2024 in Munich Lot 375


375
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn), 1967.
Silkscreen in colors
Estimate:
€ 70,000 - 90,000

 
$ 77,000 - 99,000

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Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn). 1967.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed (barely legible) on the reverse in the lower left and stamped with the number in the lower right. From an edition of 250 copies. On thin cardboard. 91 x 91.4 cm (35.8 x 35.9 in).
Printed by Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc., New York, and published by Factory Additions, New York.

• Warhol's “Marilyn” is the ultimate icon of modern art prints.
• In his Marilyn seres, Andy Warhol expressed all the longings associated with her to this day.
• A sheet from the first portfolio published by Warhol's Factory Additions, New York
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PROVENANCE: Private collection, Hesse (since 2004, Lempertz).

LITERATURE: Frayda Feldman, Jörg Schellmann, Claudia Defendi. Andy Warhol Prints. A catalogue raisonné 1962-1987, New York 2003, entry no. II.27.
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Lempertz, auction 868, Zeitgenössische Kunst, December 3, 2004, lot 691 (illustrated).

"The aura of Warhol's portraits is so strong that we remember Marilyn Monroe in the likeness Warhol gave her. This is also true for other portraits, but above all for Marylin, the star of all stars."
Carl Haenlein, in: Andy Warhol. Bilder 1961 bis 1981, ex. cat. Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover, 1981, p. 8.

Called up: December 7, 2024 - ca. 17.25 h +/- 20 min.

Warhol's Marilyn silkscreens are among Pop Art's most famous programmatic works. Silkscreen printing as an artistic medium is just as far removed from the spontaneous gesture of painting as serial production is from an original work that carries the artist's signature. In Warhol's work, however, a motif's poignancy lies precisely in the totality of the images. As in many of his other works, the underlying design principle here is the variation on the same iconographic theme. Having become a commodity of American consumerism, the stars are presented in a way comparable to an industrial mass product. Since she died in 1962, numerous series of Marilyn Monroe pictures have been created, their colorful surfaces emphasizing the actress's glamorous image. As in almost all of his female portraits, they are characterized by lipstick, eye shadow, and a photo-friendly smile that lends them a mask-like character. Following various canvas versions, Warhol created a portfolio of ten silkscreens based on a press photo in 1967, which repeated the same subject, the smiling face of the actress, in ten color variations. In the present sheet, Warhol used five color stencils and emphasized the lips in a bold purple-blue contrasting sharply with the pink background. “For the Marilyn series, Warhol drew on an advertising image from the 1953 film ‘Niagara’ [..] Warhol's image shows the creation of a myth. It shows how the primary purpose of portrait photography, namely to be a true-to-life likeness of a person, is overlaid and distorted by a secondary purpose, which sees something else in this person: the perfect creature, the object of sexual desire, the embodiment of the American dream.
Moreover, it shows –and this is where the myth begins – how this secondary sense, however much it may just be a projection, is anchored in the 'reality' of an existing human being by the realism that photography guarantees as a 'true image.' The Marilyns are fictitious and realistic; they show a being that stands above the people and is one of them.” (Michael Lüthy, in: Andy Warhol. Thirty are better than none, Frankfurt a. Main 1995, pp. 51ff.) [EH]




Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Andy Warhol "Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn)"
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Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 32 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 27 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
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Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 800,000 €: herefrom 27 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 800,000 € is subject to a premium of 21% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 800,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
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another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.

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