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Over the years, Marisol sculpted various family groups. The Kennedy Family <\/em>(1961) combines both subjects, and offers an early depiction of Jackie, who, following her husband\u2019s assassination, was represented by her friend Andy Warhol (whom Marisol also portrayed, and who featured Marisol in a few of his experimental films).<\/p>\n Although, a year after making The Royal Family<\/em>, Marisol represented Venezuela at the Venice Biennale (a significant honour), her work, during the 1970s, became less chic and witty, and more political, and she gradually fell out of critical and commercial favour. Once one of America\u2019s pre-eminent sculptors, by the time of her death, aged 85, in 2016 in New York, she was largely forgotten.<\/p>\n Marisol\u2019s portraits often strike an absurd, amusing note, and the mood of The Royal Family<\/em> is, surely, light-hearted and sympathetic. Yes, the figures are a little like hefty skittles, waiting to be knocked down, but the group hardly has a republican agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n If anything, Marisol\u2019s treatment suggests private individuals trapped in rough-hewn public personas \u2013 roles that, as the red carpet rising behind the figures, like sinister floodwater, reminds us, the Royal family is almost always obliged to play. That Marisol only painted the fronts of the boxes suggests she wished to emphasise this only-for-show nature of their public selves.<\/p>\n \u2018Marisol\u2019 is at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humleb\u00e6k, Denmark (<\/em>louisiana.dk<\/em><\/a>), from Oct 1, and the Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland (<\/em>kunsthaus.ch<\/em><\/a>), from April 17, 2026; it will then travel to two other European venues<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the years, Marisol sculpted various family groups. The Kennedy Family (1961) combines both subjects, and offers an early depiction of Jackie, who, following her husband\u2019s assassination, was represented by her friend Andy Warhol (whom Marisol also portrayed, and who featured Marisol in a few of his experimental films). Although, a year after making The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2055713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22092,21894,22221,382427,374394,344742,382428,24515,345946],"class_list":["post-2055712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-art","tag-artists","tag-culture","tag-culture-editors-choice","tag-exhibitions","tag-standard","tag-telegraph-magazine","tag-the-royal-family","tag-top-story"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Telegraphs-mischievous-1967-Royal-family-sculpture.avif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2055713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}