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I can be smart when it's important, but most men don't like it. -- Marilyn Monroe (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1953)
TOM KELLEY (B. 1914)
Marilyn Monroe, 1949
Details
TOM KELLEY (B. 1914)
Marilyn Monroe, 1949
dye-bleach print, printed later
initialed and numbered '195/300' in ink (on the recto)
36¾ x 29½in. (93.3 x 74.9cm.)
Marilyn Monroe, 1949
dye-bleach print, printed later
initialed and numbered '195/300' in ink (on the recto)
36¾ x 29½in. (93.3 x 74.9cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, New York, Playboy at 50, December 17, 2003, lot 2.
Literature
Edgren, The Playboy Book: Forty Years, Stoddart, 1998, p. 17;
Playboy: 50 Years - The Photographs, Chronicle Books, 2003.
Playboy: 50 Years - The Photographs, Chronicle Books, 2003.
Exhibited
Marilyn Monroe: Photographs from the Collection of Michaela and Leon Constantiner, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, May 13 - September 25, 2004;
I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, November 12, 2004 - April 3, 2005, Toledo Museum of Art and Bass Museum of Art.
I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, November 12, 2004 - April 3, 2005, Toledo Museum of Art and Bass Museum of Art.
Further Details
While preparing the launch issue of his magazine Playboy, Hugh Hefner purchased from the John Baumgarten Calendar Company a previously unpublished nude colour shot of the young Marilyn Monroe. She became the magazine's first 'Sweetheart of the Month' and the picture became an instant icon.