Bert Stern – Photolithograph – Marilyn Monroe – Avant Garde

£1,850.00

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Bert Stern – Photolithograph of Marilyn Monroe – Avant Garde

1968
Hand signed
Gravure lithography and serigraphy
Stock number: BS5529/qspg
Price: £1850

He dedicated from his hand by writing “To Wine , To Marilyn ” as a tribute to the grand cru of Bordeaux that they were tasting during a shooting.

Bert Stern took what were to be the final photographs of Marilyn Monroe before her death. Know as “The Last Sitting”, the portraits were shot at the Bel Air Hotel in Hollywood over three days. On reflection Stern was never entirely satisfied with them, “because of photography’s technical limitations, they never quite communicated the dazzling image of Marilyn that existed in my mind’s eye at the time I photographed her.” As a result, over the next five years Stern began experimenting with silk screening techniques in order to capture and preserve the image of Marilyn he saw at the time he photographed her.

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Bert Stern was an American photographer best known for his iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe. With a photo shoot that took place in 1962 just weeks before the actress’ death, Stern later compiled his image into the photobook Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting, first published in 1982.

Born on October 3, 1929 in Brooklyn, NY, Stern taught himself how to take photographs as a youth. Over the course of his career, Stern changed the landscape of fashion and advertising photography by creating dynamic, stand-alone images that no longer existed simply to serve the text. He emerged alongside Richard Avedon, Mark Shaw, and Irving Penn as a pioneer of this new, confrontational style.

Stern died at the age of 83 on June 26, 2013 in New York, NY. Notable exhibitions of his work include “I Wanna Be Loved By You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe” shown at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and “The Last Sitting” at the Musee Maillol in Paris.

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