BERT STERN (AMERICAN 1929-2013)
MARILYN WITH BLUE ROSES, FROM THE LAST SITTING - 1962
£1,875
Auction: Session Two: 27 January 2021 | From 14:00
Description
Digital pigment print, printed later, titled in gold ink, signed and stamped verso
Dimensions
90cm x 70cm (35.5in x 27.5in), unframed
Footnote
Biography:
Bert Stern’s first job was in the post room at Look magazine where he was friends with the director Stanley Kubrick. It was Stern’s photo of the young Lolita wearing red heart shaped glasses and sucking a lollipop that was used as the poster. Stern was a photographer during the Korean War and subsequently worked in advertising. But it was as a fashion photographer that Stern made his name when Vogue magazine contracted him to fill 100 fashion pages a year. Stern proposed Marilyn Monroe as a subject and in the summer of 1962 he took more than 2500 photographs of Monroe over three sessions held in a Los Angeles hotel. The images which captured Monroe in a sometimes pensive but mostly playful mood have attracted iconic status and were published in a book entitled The Last Sitting. She was found dead at her home several weeks later. Stern continued to work with film stars, models and musicians throughout his career drawing comparisons with the British celebrity photographer David Bailey.