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Bert Stern
The Last Sitting: Marilyn Monroe With Chenille Scarf
Medium: C-Print On Paper
Date: 2000
Edition: Of 50
Size: 30 x 30 inches
Additional Details: Hand signed and numbered by Bert Stern. Sheet size: 30 x 30 inches. Image size: 24.25 x 24.25 inches. Frame size: 32.12 x 32.12 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Bert Stern was an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer.
His best known work is arguably a collection of 2,500 photographs, some nude or semi-nude, taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period in June 1962, six weeks before her death. As they were the last posed photographs taken of Monroe, the portfolio has come to be known as "The Last Sitting". The photographs were taken for Vogue, who published several of them following Monroe's death.
Art ID: G19536
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 Musée Maillol in Paris.
