8vo. 100 pp. Exhibition catalogue from the 1971 exhibit Warhol: The Tate Gallery, featuring the blue-and-yellow variation of the artist's iconic Marilyn Monroe. Warhol has boldly signed to the right portion of the cover in black felt-tip. The catalogue is full of color and black-and-white photographs. Index printed on magenta paper. 8.25 x 8.25 inches (21 x 21 cm.).

Marilyn Monroe was a legend when she committed suicide in August of 1962, but in retrospect her life seems a gradual martyrdom to the media and to her public. After her death, Warhol based many works on the same photograph of her, a publicity still for the 1953 movie Niagara. He would paint the canvas with a single color—turquoise, green, blue, lemon yellow—then silkscreen Monroe's face on top, sometimes alone, sometimes doubled, sometimes multiplied in a grid. In reduplicating this photograph of a heroine shared by millions, Warhol denied the sense of the uniqueness of the artist's personality that had been implicit in the gestural painting of the 1950s. He also used a commercial technique— silkscreening—that gives the picture a crisp, artificial look; even as Warhol canonizes Monroe, he reveals her public image as a carefully structured illusion.