Bert Stern, Marilyn Monroe Reclined, Photo 'The Last Sitting', Signed - $10K Value*

Marilyn Monroe reclined "The Last Sitting" by Bert Stern, 1962 - $10,000.00 value Item Description This Photograph of Marilyn Monroe Reclined from "The Last Sitting" series by Bert Stern, 1962, features a sleepy Marilyn Monroe in bed. The signed photograph is professionally framed. 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 artifacts—as the last visible evidence of the living woman (a legacy reinforced by Stern’s decision to publish the conta