Gallery proposal
M. Monroe i love your kiss forever forever - Jade white butterfly
andy warholColor lithograph on paper.
41x58
Original lithograph on white wove paper. Printed by Maurice Beaudet in Paris and published by EW Kornfeld, of Bern, Switzerland. 2000 edition, unsigned as published in the regular edition of Walasse Ting's "1 ¢ Life" portfolio from 1964. Great impression with good strong colors. Printed on two separate sheets, like all impressions.
The "1 ¢ Life" portfolio included original lithographs by both major players in the American pop art scene and masters of European expressionism. The album also contained poems by American / Chinese artist / poet Walasse Ting who led the project which was curated by Sam Francis.
Marilyn Monroe I Love your kiss Forever Forever 5 is Warhol's first depiction of maeilyn Monroe . Unlike later portrails of the classic Holliwood star's likeness set agan vibrant colors, here Warhol has detailed a foucuses image of Monroe's most seductive feature set against a stark white backdrop. The print illustrates Monroe's lips, slightly parted in a sensual, erotic manner that bordrs on the lineof outing, as if the word's most popular movie star is on a segret that the word will never know about.