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'Marilyn Monroe was a legend.
In her own lifetime she created a myth of what a poor girl from a deprived background could attain. For the entire world she became a symbol of the eternal feminine.
Now it is all at an end. I hope that her death will stir sympathy and understanding for a sensitive artist and woman who brought joy and pleasure to the world.
I cannot say goodbye. Marilyn never liked goodbye, but in the peculiar way she had of turning things around so that they faced reality -- I will say au revoir. For the country to which she has gone, we must all some day visit.' -- Lee Strasberg from 'A Tribute', delivered at Marilyn Monroe's funeral, August 9, 1962
ROBERT FRANK (B. 1924)
Marilyn Dead, 1962
Details
ROBERT FRANK (B. 1924)
Marilyn Dead, 1962
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed and dated in ink (in the margin); signed in ink and copyright credit stamp (on the verso)
13¼ x 8¾in. (33.6 x 22.1cm.)
Marilyn Dead, 1962
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed and dated in ink (in the margin); signed in ink and copyright credit stamp (on the verso)
13¼ x 8¾in. (33.6 x 22.1cm.)
Provenance
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, California;
acquired 1995.
acquired 1995.
Literature
'Portfolio: Robert Frank: 5 Photographs,' The Second Coming Magazine, vol. 1, no. 6, January 1965, p. 58;
'Coney Island: Robert Frank,' Camera, vol. 50, no. 3, March 1971, p. 24 (Note: the photograph was not actually made at Coney Island); Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Lustrum Press, 1972, unpaginated.
'Coney Island: Robert Frank,' Camera, vol. 50, no. 3, March 1971, p. 24 (Note: the photograph was not actually made at Coney Island); Frank, The Lines of My Hand, Lustrum Press, 1972, unpaginated.
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.