BERT STERN (B. 1929)

Marilyn Monroe, 1962

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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.)

Christie's, New York, April 8, 1993, lot 517.

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.'

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