Marilyn Monroe's Lips

Object Details

Artist

Andy Warhol, American, b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1928–1987

Provenance

Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, to 2 May 1967

Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, 2 May 1967-6 March 1972

Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century," 7 October 1999-17 January 2000. Tour: HAUS DER KUNST, Munich, 11 February-30 April.

WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis. "Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Death and Disasters, 1962-1964," 13 November 2005-26 February 2006. Tour: MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Chicago, 18 March-18 June.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "Strange Bodies," 11 December 2008-15 November 2009, no cat.

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years," 10 September-31 December 2012. Tour: ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM, Pittsburgh, 2 February 2013-28 April.

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection," 16 October 2014-24 April 2016, no cat.

MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. pp. 30-31.

Published References

MARTINEZ, BENJAMIN and JACQUELINE BLOCK. Visual Forces: An Introduction to Design 2nd ed. (New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs/Prentice Hall, 1995), fig. A, p. 198.

UNSIGNED. Harpers Bazaar: Collectors' Edition for Tate Modern (April 2020), front cover (color det.).

UNSIGNED. Contemporary Art Morning Auction, Sotheby's, 15 November 2019, Sale N10150 (New York: Sotheby's, 2019), color ill. p. 41.

AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 192, pp. 214-215.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1972

1962

Accession Number

72.313

Type

Painting

Medium

Acrylic, screenprint ink, and graphite on canvas

Dimensions

panel (A (left)): 82 3/4 x 80 3/4 in. (210.2 x 205.1 cm) panel (B (right)): 82 3/4 x 82 3/8 in. (210.2 x 209.2 cm)

See more items in

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

Pop Art (American)

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Record ID

hmsg_72.313

Metadata Usage (text)

Usage conditions apply

GUID (Link to Original Record)

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py296031519-b904-4688-ac61-031b7d8b86cc