Crying Marilyn x 2 (gold and black diamond dust). 2011.
Mixed media on canvas. Acrylic, silkscreen and "diamond dust".
Signed, dated and titled as well as inscribed with the work number "EV2011" and information on the colors and the technique "gold + black + diamond dust". 158 x 240 cm (62.2 x 94.4 in). [EH].


• Oversized portrait of the Hollywood icon who plays the leading role in many of Russell Young's works.
• His paintings with sparkling “diamond dust” lend the stars of the past a shimmering timelessness.
• A comparable work from the “Marilyn Crying” series is art of the Albertina collection in Vienna.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Great Britain.

EXHIBITION: Kreszler Gallery, New York, 2011.


"They're all women that have really inspired me growing up [..]. Growing up in Northern England is a fairly bleak, dour, gritty, horrible place. And this was my escapism. My father would take me to see all the movies, we would listen to all the music. [..] All the women I've chosen, they're all fairly strong women. [..] Even Marilyn set up her own studio because she hated the role she was being given. So they're all a nod to the modern-day woman."
Russell Young in an interview for Heather James Gallery, YouTube, May 2020, quoted from: www.youtu.be/EsVHYhV_uP8.