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Artist |
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Bert Stern |
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Title |
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Marilyn Monroe, the last sitting, an exhibition presented at Seventh Mois de la photo à Paris (Irgr; 36 works)
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Medium |
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gelatin silver prints |
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Size |
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39 x 59.5 in. / 99 x 151.1 cm. |
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Year |
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1962 - |
Printing/
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1991 |
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Description |
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BERT STERN (B. 1929)
Marilyn Monroe, 'The Last Sitting', 1962, an exhibition presented at seventh 'Mois de la Photo à Paris', 1992
36 gelatin silver prints (8 hand colored, 4 hand tinted, 9 platinum-toned) and 23 chromogenic prints, printed 1991
each signed, dated and numbered '1/25', '1/36' or '1/50' in wax pencil (on the recto) or (in the margin); each with exhibition label affixed (on the frame backing)
varying sizes from 39 x 59½in. (99 x 151.1cm.) to 18½ x 18 5/8in. (47 x 47.3cm.) (59) |
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Misc. |
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Signed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Tuesday, December 16, 2008
[Lot 51]
Icons of Glamour & Style: The Constantiner Collection
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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Sotheby's, New York, April 23, 1994, lot 454
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Exhibition |
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Mois de la Photo à Paris, Galerie Atsuro Tayama, Paris, November 1992;
Marilyn Monroe: Photographs from the Collection of Michaela and Leon Constantiner, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, May 13 - September 25, 2004;
I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe from the Leon and Michaela Constantiner Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, November 12, 2004 - April 3, 2005, Toledo Museum of Art and Bass Museum of Art
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Literature |
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American Vogue, September 15, 1962;
Howell, In Vogue: Six Decades of Fashion, Allen Lane, 1975, p. 214;
Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, Thames and Hudson, 1979, p. 150;
Fraser, On the Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, Random House, 1992, pp. 128-131;
Stern, The Complete Last Sitting, Schirmer Art Books, 1992, passim; Angeletti and Oliva, In Vogue: The History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine, Rizzoli, 2006, pp. 174-175
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