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Original artwork description:
Original Painting of Marilyn Monroe by Eran Di Capri.
In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose.
The photos endure partly as artefacts - as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decision to publish the contact sheets Monroe herself had crossed out in red marker). But the pictures are also remarkable for the raw truths they seem to reveal. In them, we see an actress whose comedic talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily aware of her pinup status, yet is also beginning to show her 36 years.
Materials used:
Oil and acrylic
Tags:
#marilyn monroe drawing #marilyn monroe #marilyn monroe painting #marilyn monroe artMarilyn Monroe Portrait “The Last Sitting” By: Bert Stern (2015)
Oil painting
by Di Capri
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£980 Sold
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 76.2 x 76.2 x 5.08cm (unframed) / 76.2 x 76.2cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Original Painting of Marilyn Monroe by Eran Di Capri.
In 1962, photographer Bert Stern shot a series of photos of Marilyn Monroe that have collectively come to be known as “The Last Sitting.” Taken during several boozy sessions at the Hotel Bel-Air, the photographs are arguably the most famous images ever captured of America’s most famous actress: Monroe, sleepy-eyed and naked, sips from a Champagne glass, enacts a fan dance of sorts with various diaphanous scarves, romps with erotic playfulness on a bed of white linens. Six weeks after she had posed, Monroe was found dead of an apparent barbiturate overdose.
The photos endure partly as artefacts - as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decision to publish the contact sheets Monroe herself had crossed out in red marker). But the pictures are also remarkable for the raw truths they seem to reveal. In them, we see an actress whose comedic talents were overshadowed by her sex appeal, a woman who is cannily aware of her pinup status, yet is also beginning to show her 36 years.
Materials used:
Oil and acrylic
Tags:
#marilyn monroe drawing #marilyn monroe #marilyn monroe painting #marilyn monroe art
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