Warhol began making the acclaimed screenprinted celebrity portraits for which he is best known in the early 1960s with images of stars including Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, Jackie Kennedy, and most famously, Marilyn Monroe after her death in 1962. Twenty years later, Warhol would create what would become another timeless portrait of Golden Age Hollywood star, Grace Kelly, shortly after the actress’s death in 1982 from injuries sustained from a car crash. Warhol’s penchant for examining celebrity figures posthumously and his fascination with celebrity tragedy further reveals the artist’s deep contemplation of the public identity in the modern age. For Grace Kelly, Warhol chose as his source image a still from Kelly’s first film in 1951, Fourteen Hours; this film, which jumpstarted Kelly’s career as an actress and led to a radical bisection of the actress’s public persona, private life and personal identity as she became a figure of public speculation and intrigue. Here, through a quintessentially Warholian synthesis of bold colors and linework, the artist captures the essence of Grace Kelly’s beauty and poise in an immortalization of her fame and status as a cultural icon.