Bert Stem (1929-2013)
Marilyn Monroe in black Dior dress (from the Last Sitting), 1962
archival pigment print
signed, titled and numbered '11/25' in red crayon (image, recto); signed, dated and copyright credit in red crayon with Photographer's credit stamp in ink (verso) and accompanying signed, titled, dated and numbered '11/25' in ink Certificate of Authenticity
image: 32.2 x 26cm. (15⅝ x 10¼in.)
sheet: 48.2 x 32.7cm. (19 x 12⅞in.)
This work is number 11 from the edition of 25.

Provenance:
Private European Collection.

Specialist Notes:

This work is from what is surely Bert Stern’s best known shoot, The Last Sitting, taken for Vogue in 1962. The shoot, which lasted three days, happened six weeks before Marilyn’s death and these images remain the last magazine pictures taken of her. On news of her death, Vogue decided not to pull the feature, but rather to allow these images, intimate and revealing, to serve as a memorial to the icon, as they continue to do today.

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