- Description
This photograph of Marilyn Monroe wearing a scarf is from "The Last Sitting" series by Bert Stern, created in 1962. It features a smiling, nude Marilyn Monroe with a scarf covering the front of her torso. The photograph is signed and is the part of a limited edition series of 50 prints (the current photo is 25/50). The picture is approximately 25" x 25” inches and the paper size is approximately 30" x 30” inches. In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose.
The photos endure partly as artifacts―as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decision to publish the contact sheets Monroe herself had crossed out in red marker). But the pictures are also remarkable for the raw truths they seem to reveal. In them, we see an actress whose comedic talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily aware of her pinup status, yet is also beginning to show her 36 years. In many shots, she is obviously drunk. This was an unhappy time for Monroe. Notorious for her on-set antics, she had been publicly lambasted by Billy Wilder after Some Like It Hot, then fired from the production of Something’s Got to Give; she’d endured two recent divorces and, in 1961, a brief stint in a psychiatric ward.
Stern excavated and preserved the poignant humanity of the real woman―beautiful, but also fragile, needy, flawed―from the monumental sex symbol. In our armored, airbrushed age, his achievement feels almost revolutionary.
The photograph comes with a free certification of authenticity and $10,000.00 insurance value. For an additional $295.00, this photograph can be professionally framed to your specifications.
Appraisal Value: $10,000.00
Our Price: $4,995.00
Specifications of Piece |
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| Artist/Maker: | Bert Stern |
| Title: | Marilyn With Scarf |
| Appr. Size: | 30" x 30" inches |
| Material: | Photograph |
| Circa-Period : | 1962 |
| Condition : | Excellent |
| Appraised Value: | $10,000.00 |
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