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New at The Warhol: Marlon
Warhols 1966 painting Marlon is one of only six images of the renegade
actors 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 Warhols 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 artists
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 imageone that will encourage
increased interest in Warhols work and the activities of the museum.
Director Tom Sokolowski notes that this is the first major acquisition
for the museum since the Founding gift was made by the Andy Warhol Foundation
for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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