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Audrey Flack , the American artist known for her photorealist style, died aged 93 on June 28, She was born in Manhattan in to Polish immigrant parents who owned a garment factory. In , she began studying fine arts at Yale University. Her early paintings were abstract expressionist, but she later became a New Realist, and in , she was the first photorealist painter added to the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

In , Flack began a two-year project. Her Vanitas series was inspired by the symbolic still-lifes of 17th century Flemish painters, with each work referring to the Latin concept of momento mori. In her painting, Marilyn , Flack recreated a famous photo by Andre de Dienes of Marilyn in Although on the cusp of fame, she had darker hair and less make-up, and was still recognisably Norma Jeane.

The image is shown within an open book, opposite a slightly tilted replica in an oval frame. There are also items related to the art of glamour, such as a tube of lipstick and compact mirror; and a string of pearls inside a blue wineglass. Another painting, Marilyn: Golden Girl , sets the same double-portrait against a sky-blue background, and a page from a book recounting a story about Norma Jeane running away from the orphanage.