To create his paintings and prints of Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol made a silkscreen of a black-and-white promotional photograph of the famous actress for the 1953 movie Niagara. His first paintings of Monroe were made shortly after her suicide in 1962. This screen prints is from a 1967 series which contained ten variations of the image in jarring color combinations. The heightened colors and Warhol’s imperfect stenciling of the actress’s features create a grotesque, hallucinatory caricature of her celebrated sensuality and beauty. Warhol emphasizes a dark and depersonalized flip-side of Monroe’s Hollywood fame, even as he immortalizes the iconic star.