Marilyn Diptych

Fifty images of Marilyn Monroe repeat across the canvas - the left half in garish, candy color, the right fading into smudged, blurred black and white. Andy Warhol made the Marilyn Diptych just after the star's death in 1962, silkscreening a publicity photo over and over. Now in the Tate, it is among his most resonant works - celebrity and mass reproduction on one side, mortality and fading on the other, the icon multiplied until she becomes a brand, glamour and death held together in the relentless mechanical repetition of the modern image.