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Marilyn Monroe, 1962
Details
BERT STERN (B. 1929)
Marilyn Monroe, 1962
gelatin silver print, printed 1991
signed in pencil/ink (in the margin); titled, numbered '3/3' and copyright credit stamp (on the verso)
39 x 39 3/8in. (99 x 100cm.)
Marilyn Monroe, 1962
gelatin silver print, printed 1991
signed in pencil/ink (in the margin); titled, numbered '3/3' and copyright credit stamp (on the verso)
39 x 39 3/8in. (99 x 100cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, New York, April 8, 1993, lot 517.
Literature
Stern, The Complete Last Sitting of Marilyn Monroe, Schirmer Art Books, 1992, p. 147.
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
This is the only shot taken during the famous photographic sessions known as The Last Sitting in which a cameo of Marilyn in full frontal nudity was made. Stern recounts: 'I started to shoot. This was the way I'd wanted her all along. Her beautiful body shone through the harlequin scarf in a tantalizing, abstract hide-and-seek. Until she dropped it. And I shot it. Just for myself. One glimpse. One stolen frame. We were finished. It was almost seven in the morning. We'd been working for twelve hours.'