Andy Warhol After // Sunday B Morning Marilyn (After Warhol) // 1970 Serigraph

"Sunday B Morning Marilyn (After Warhol)" by Andy Warhol After, Unsigned Serigraph printed in 1970 from an edition size of 250. This is #26 from the first Sunday B. Morning editions that were issued in portfolios of ten screenprints on paper in an edition of 250. The printer was Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc. and the publisher was Factory Additions, New York. These screens were based on the original screens published by factory Additions in 1967 and printed on heavy museum board.

Since 1960 American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) has been considered one of the most well known and controversial artists in American Pop Art, having becoming synonymous with Pop Art itself. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silk-screening, photography, film and sculpture. Warhol used common images of popular media that were executed with hardline realism, and were considered new and outrageous. Andy Warhol is considered to be the #1 top performing artists on the art market today, comprising a sizable chunk of the contemporary art market.

Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol Superstars, and is credited with coining the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame."