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This article uses Gothic studies to examine the preoccupation with death in Andy Warhol’s  Marilyn Diptych . Drawing on the Gothic convention of the decaying portrait, I argue that  Marilyn Diptych  communicates a wider tension between immortality and death at the heart of American celebrity culture in the 1960s. The decaying portrait is a traditional motif within the Gothic novel, but this article explores how the portrait itself embodies Gothic qualities of decay. While Warhol’s  Electric Chair  has been previously analysed within a Gothic framework, I uncover the Gothicness of the celebrity portrait and situate  Marilyn Diptych  in the context of Marilyn Monroe’s death and the wider culture of mediatised disaster in the 1960s. Ultimately, this article demonstrates how  Marilyn Diptych  epitomises the landscape of celebrity in the 1960s. As a period of technological modernity dominated by television, the 1960s is a media-saturated image culture that enables the creation and preservation of new kinds of celebrities. However, the period is also tainted by relentless global and domestic crises, within which high-profile celebrity deaths feature strongly. This overwhelming culture of death problematises media immortality by exposing celebrities as fragile Gothic bodies prone to decay.

The death of the star: celebrity decay and the Gothic portrait in Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych