Andy Warhol's "Marilyn" portfolio of 1967 is best known through its hot pink and turquoise colorway, but one of its ten prints takes a far darker route. "Marilyn F.S. II.24" sets cool greys and near-black over a dark ground, giving the star's face a shadowed, subdued presence rather than the bright glamour associated with the series.
For all ten screenprints in the portfolio, Warhol used the same publicity photograph of Marilyn Monroe from 1953, assigning each print its own palette, so that the mood of a single image shifts from one sheet to the next through color alone.
Each print is a screenprint on paper with a sheet size of 36 by 36 inches (91.4 by 91.4 centimeters), published in an edition of 250 with 26 artist's proofs.
According to the New York dealer Art Dealing Guy, II.24 holds the individual auction record among the ten colorways, a position it regained in April 2026, and the print rarely appears on the market.
