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New at The Warhol: MarlonWarhol’s 1966 painting Marlon is one of only six images of the renegade actor’s image produced by Warhol. Like his screen-queen images of Marilyn and Liz, the brooding character of Brando portraying Johnny the biker in The Wild One (1954) perfectly suits Warhol’s languorous treatment of his idols. Silk-screened onto unprimed (unpainted) canvas, the painting has a raw, immediate quality unlike that of any other of the artist’s works. Lea Simonds, Chairman of the Board of The Andy Warhol Museum, says,
“The Board was pleased to have the rare opportunity to purchase a work
of such importance for the collection. The painting is remarkable
both for its formal and iconographic strengths, and we hope it will be
perceived as a provocative and memorable image—one that will encourage
increased interest in Warhol’s work and the activities of the museum.”
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