Sixty photos of Marilyn will go under the hammer in Marilyn Monroe: A Timeless Beauty, a special event on Tuesday, January 30 at Kudos Memorabilia in Stevenage, Hertfordshire.
These vintage prints are mainly from the 1970s and ’80s, sized 8×10 inches within a 16×20″ mount, with some framed. You can register to bid online at Live Auctioneers.
Early modelling photos from 1945-46 by Andre de Dienes (above) and Richard C. Miller (below), charting the beginning of Norma Jeane’s transformation.
Two poses from Marilyn’s ‘yoga session’ with Ed Cronenweth (below), studio photographer at Columbia, where she filmed Ladies of the Chorus in 1948.
Below, four poses from Marilyn’s 1949 photo session with Andre de Dienes at Tobey Beach, NY, during her promotional tour for Love Happy.
Signed 1950 photo by Ed Clark (below left). The photo at right is from the same period, promoting Marilyn’s role in The Asphalt Jungle.
Below left, a portrait by Frank Powolny, studio photographer at Twentieth Century-Fox, promoting Marilyn’s role in All About Eve (1950.) Powolny is also thought to have taken the photo at right in 1953.
Below, four poses from a ‘cheesecake’ shoot with Earl Theisen, circa 1951-52.
Below, from left to right: a 1951 pin-up shot, usually attributed to Phil Burchman; Marilyn on location in Monterey for Clash By Night (1952), possibly by RKO studio photographer Ernest Bachrach; and a 1952 glamour shot, generally attributed to Frank Powolny.
Below, three photos by Philippe Halsman, for Marilyn’s first LIFE magazine cover story in 1952.
Marilyn photographed by Jock Carroll on location for Niagara (1953): below left, in front of the famous tour-boat, Maid of the Mist; and at right, visiting a local factory. Both prints are stamped on the verso, with handwritten descriptions.
Below, at top: press photo of Marilyn recovering in hospital after an appendectomy, 1952; bottom left, Marilyn with broken thumb en route to Tokyo, 1954 – signed on verso by photographer Kashio Aoki (Joe DiMaggio is cropped from the original photo). And at right, Marilyn at the New York premiere of The Rose Tattoo (1955).
Below left, two photos attributed to Bruno Bernard: at top, Marilyn by the pool at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs, 1949, with typographical signature on verso – Johnny Hyde has been cropped from the original photo.
At bottom left, Marilyn after announcing her divorce from Joe DiMaggio in 1954 – signed ‘Bernard of Hollywood’ in pencil on verso. And at right, a 1951 portrait often attributed to Bernard.
Marilyn seen below on location for The Seven Year Itch in New York, 1954. Signed by photographer George Barris.
Below, two more (unattributed) photos from the Seven Year Itch shoot, including the famous ‘subway grate scene.’
Marilyn’s favourite photo of herself, taken by Cecil Beaton in 1956, and framed (below left); and at right, another image captured by Beaton’s assistant, Ed Pfizenmaier, during the same sitting.
Below, top left; a photo from Marilyn’s ‘Black Sitting’ for Milton Greene, 1956; and Marilyn with toy tiger by Richard Avedon, 1957. At bottom, promotional shot for The Misfits by Eve Arnold, 1960.
Contact sheet print plus two framed photos from Marilyn’s 1962 Vogue layout, all signed by photographer Bert Stern.
Two photos of Marilyn wearing a black Christian Dior dress, signed by Stern.
Two more contact sheet prints signed by Stern, of Marilyn in a white Dior ensemble.
Plus contact sheet prints from Marilyn’s black wig sitting, black dress with pearls sitting, and white veil sitting, all signed by Stern.
And finally, a series of signed photos taken by George Barris in 1962.
UPDATE…
This framed print by Bert Stern was the top seller with a final bid of $2,600 (or approximately £2050.) The image measures 12×12 inches, and is signed by Stern with the title ‘Marilyn’ in red crayon, numbered 10/25 and dated 2012.
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