Live Auction 2367The Year of the Rabbit: The Playboy Collection
TOM KELLEY
Lot 83

TOM KELLEY

Marilyn Monroe on Red Velvet, 1949

Closed8 December 2010

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USD 13,750

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TOM KELLEY
Marilyn Monroe on Red Velvet, 1949
6 chromogenic digital prints, printed later
each approximately 16 x 15¾in. (50.8 x 40cm.) (6)

Specialist note

This is one of the most immediately recognizable series of images of the young Marilyn Monroe, posed naked on red velvet, illustrated frequently in subsequent Playboy pictorials.