Marilyn Monroe's Aura (II.31) after Warhol, from the series Portraits

Artist/Maker Anna Von Mertens (American, b. 1973)

Date2009

MediumHand-dyed and hand-stitched cotton

DimensionsOverall: 35 15/16 × 35 13/16 × 1/4 in. (91.3 × 91 × 0.6 cm)

Credit LineJohn Pearson Fund for Abstract Art

PortfolioPortraits

Object number2024.7

Status

Not on view

Objects: USA 2020

R & Company, New York (February 16, 2021 - September 16, 2021 )

Collections

Modern & Contemporary

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1980

Woman Looking through a Piece of Transparent Silk Cloth, from an untitled series of Bust Portraits of Women

mid-1790s

The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III and a Teahouse Waitress with a Lantern, from an untitled series of at least 12 portraits of actors off stage

1783

Iwai Kumesaburô III as Hanaregoma no Chôkichi

1861

Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Inada Kôzô, from an untitled series of actor portraits

1861

The Wrestlers of the Eastern Camp, Nijigatake Somaemon of the Sekiwake Rank, from Awa Province, and Fudenoumi Kinemon of Maegashira Rank from Kokura

1785

Mme. Réjane, from the series Portraits d'Acteurs et d'Actrices

1898

Children Playing with Battledores as Their Mother Prepares a Plum Branch for a Flower Arrangement

1799

The Chiyozuru Teahouse, from an untitled series of Three Portraits of Waitresses with Shadows on Door Panels Behind

late 1790s

The Actor Ichikawa Monnosuke II as a Rough Townsman, from the untitled series of half-length portraits with the actor's house and poetry names

1791

Sarah Bernhardt, from the series Twelve Portraits

1900

The actor Sakata Hangoro III in the role of the villain Fujikawa Mizuemon, from the play Hana-ayame bunroku Soga, performed at the Miyako-za, fifth month Kansei 6 (5/1794)

1940