Live Auction 2252Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection
CECIL BEATON (1904-1980)
Lot 129 Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from the awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of 'Ohs' and 'Ahs'. She is as spectacular as the silvery shower of a Vesuvius fountain; she has rocketed from obscurity to become our post-war sex symbol -- the pin-up girl of an age. And whatever Press agency or manufactured illusion may have lit the fuse, it is her own weird genius that has sustained her flight.
Cecil Beaton

CECIL BEATON (1904-1980)

Marilyn Monroe, circa 1955

Closed17 December 2008

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CECIL BEATON (1904-1980)
Marilyn Monroe, circa 1955
3 gelatin silver prints
each signed in ink (on the overmat)
each 9 3/8 x 9½in. (23.7 x 24cm.) (3)

Hamiltons Gallery, London.
acquired 2001.