Robert INDIANA - Marilyn Monroe , 1997 - Original silkscreen, Handsigned

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Robert Indiana : (1928-) pseudonym of Robert Clark, born in 1928 in New Castle (Indiana), is an American artist associated to the Pop Art movement. He is the creator of the internationally renowned sculpture "LOVE", which was publicly exhibited for the first time in the Love Park in Philadelphia in 1970. This sculpture then "traveled" around the world, and settled in New York, Madrid, Singapore, Taipei, Montreal, Martigny, Amsterdam etc. and ifs motif has been since distributed in a large variety of forms - stamps, rugs, prints etc.