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Diptyque Warhol / Pink Marilyn
Category
PaintingTechnique
Mixed media on canvasDate
2015Dimensions
91 cm x 61 cm
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Category
PaintingTechnique
Mixed media on canvasDate
2015Dimensions
91 cm x 61 cmDimensions with frame94 cm x 64 cm
Signature
Signed and dated on the backProof(s) of authenticity
Work sold with a certificate of authenticity.State of conservation
Very goodFraming
YesLocation
Hauts-de-France, FranceDescription
Speedy Graphito (born 1961)
Warhol / Pink Marilyn Diptych
2015
Mixed media on canvas
Each canvas: 91.5 × 91.5 cm (framed: 94 × 94 cm)
Signed and dated on the reverse
Framed in a white wooden float frame
Certificate of authenticity
This vibrant diptych pays tribute to the ultimate pop icon, Marilyn Monroe, boldly revisiting Andy Warhol’s legendary silkscreen portrait.
A precursor and pioneer of the French urban art movement, Speedy Graphito established a distinctive aesthetic in the 1980s — the Graphito Style — blending irony, popular culture, and visual poetry. His work, both joyful and critical, playfully questions our relationship with images, brands, and modern myths.
As prolific as he is inventive, he explores painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, developing over the decades a universal, colorful, and timeless visual language.
In 2021, he transformed the Musée en Herbe in Paris into a total work of art — a complete immersion in his imaginative world, showcasing his boundless creativity.
A true distillation of his style, this diptych pays homage to Warhol while asserting the creative freedom of Speedy Graphito, one of the leading figures in contemporary art today.
Provenance
Private collection
The artist
Bio
Speedy Graphito is one of the pioneers of French street art, also known as contemporary urban art. The French artist is considered a reference and one of the most important artists of his generation.
In the early 1980s, Speedy Graphito first tried his hand at free figuration, which he abandoned in favor of his own style, the Graphito style. He became known for his colorful walls and striking drawings in Paris.
Speedy Graphito is a jack-of-all-trades artist, expressing himself through sculpture, painting and installations. His work is incredibly in tune with his time, it bears witness to the present for the future.
If we were to define his art in a few words, we could say that it is fundamentally joyful and deep, his colors are vivid. The creative uses irony and humor to deliver messages. He appropriates images known to all by appealing to popular imagery: superheroes, brands and other symbols known worldwide. By this way, Speedy Graphito questions us on the cultural identity of the western societies which are more and more standardized, he superposes the reality of our societies with poetic compositions.
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