Priority access Marilyn Monroe Nude on Bed by Bert Stern, The Last Sitting, Black-and-White Celebrity Portrait 1960s

From the Last Sitting for Vogue, Marilyn Monroe Nude on the Bed, 1962 by Bert Stern, a digital print, 13" x 19," numbered 34/50. Signed, dated, and numbered on verso (back of photo). Titled, dated, signed in red on image recto (front of photo). Printed in 2013. Provenance: private collector.

Bert Stern famously captured Marilyn Monroe in The Last Sitting, the actress’s last group of portraits taken six weeks before her death. Stern pioneered a photographic aesthetic, with emotionally direct images that strove not only to showcase the human figure but also to capture a sense of the subject’s psychology. “What makes a great model is her need, her desire; and it’s exciting to photograph desire,” Stern once said.

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Artist’s Bio:

"Bert Stern (1929-2013) pioneered a photographic aesthetic, with emotionally direct images that strove not only to showcase the human figure but also to capture a sense of the subject's psychology. ""What makes a great model is her need, her desire; and it's exciting to photograph desire,"" Stern once said.

American photographer Stern was one of the last artists to photograph Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. Monroe died in August 1962. These sessions became known as The Last Sitting. The 2571 photographs taken during these sessions were published in Marilyn Monroe - The Complete Last Sitting (1992)."

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