LONDON (The Associated Press)—The National Portrait Gallery is to stage its first exhibition devoted to Pop Art.

Andy Warhol, Ray Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, and Ray Johnson will be represented alongside works by such British luminaries as Sir Peter Blake and David Hockney.

One room of the exhibition will be a ``secular chapel'' devoted to Marilyn Monroe.

The gallery will recreate the famous 1967 tribute show, "Homage to Marilyn Monroe," held at the Sydney Janis Gallery in New York.

Several of the original works will be reunited in London—among them Warhol's famous screenprints.

The Marilyn room is intended to illustrate ``the way Pop portraits transformed familiar images into works of art of great technical virtuosity, lasting originality and enduring fascination''.

The show, Pop Art Portraits, has been conceived as a ``visual dialogue'' between U.S. and British Pop Art.

It will examine the artists' fascination with depicting the famous, using images taken from advertising, pop music, cinema, and print.

In all there are 52 key works by 28 artists working on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s and 1960s.

Highlights include a Warhol self-portrait, Lichtenstein's iconic In The Car and Ray Johnson's proto-Pop portraits of James Dean and Elvis Presley, plus rarely seen portraits by Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, and Robert Indiana.

The show will run from October 11 to January 20.

It will be divided into six sections: Precursors of Pop, Portraits and the Question of Style, Fantasy, Film, Innocence and Experience, and Marilyn.

Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery, said: ``Pop Art Portraits creates an exciting opportunity to see an important art movement in a new light - the portrait is recreated through the work of these artists.''