Live Auction 17483Daydreaming: Photographs from the Goldstein Collection
RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Lot 45

RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)

Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957

Closed2 April 2019

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USD 100,000

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on linen, printed 1980
signed and numbered '5/25' in ink, stamped copyright credit, title, date and edition (flush mount, verso)
image: 13 x 10 5/8 in. (33 x 27.1 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (35.1 x 27.4 cm.)
This work is number five from an edition of twenty-five

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 1980.

Specialist note

“She is a beautiful child. I don’t think she’s an actress at all, not in a traditional sense. What she has – this presence, this luminosity, this flickering intelligence - could never surface on the stage. It’s so fragile and subtle, it can only be caught by the camera. But anyone who thinks this girl is simply another Harlow or harlot or whatever is mad. I hope, I really pray, that she survives long enough to free the strange lovely talent that’s wandering through her like a jailed spirit.” — Constance Collier