Feb 15, 2018 - Sale 2466

Sale 2466 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 28,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
BERT STERN (1929-2013)
The Marilyn Portfolio. With 7 photographs from "The Last Sitting;" also includes an "Index Print" with a composite of the 7 images. Archival pigment prints, the images measuring 21 inches (53.3 cm.) square, the sheets 24x22 1/2 inches (61x57.2 cm.), with Stern's signature and edition notation 6/12, in wax pencil, on recto, and with the edition notation again, in wax pencil, and copyright credit and reproduction limitation hand stamps, on verso; each print is matted. Folio-sized black linen clamshell box; with multiple Certificates of Authentication signed by Stern and numbered, laid in, and a signed first edition of EROS magazine, Autumn, 1962. ONE OF 12 NUMBERED COPIES. New York: Ralph Ginzburgh, 1962; printed 2008-09

Additional Details

Acquired directly from Bert Stern, in 2009.