BERT STERN (born 1930)

Details
BERT STERN (born 1930)

Marilyn Monroe (1962)

Toned gelatin silver print. 1991. Signed in crayon in the margin; signed, titled, numbered 3 from the limited edition of 3, annotations in ink, dated twice in pencil and copyright credit stamp on the verso. 40 x 48in.
Literature
Bert Stern-The Complete Last Sitting of Marilyn Monroe, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1982 and 1992, p. 147.

Lot Essay

This is the only shot taken during the famous photographic sessions known as the "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.