(1935)

"Marilyn Monroe 1961".

Archival pigment print mounted on aluminium plate. Later print, dated 2013.

Image 93.5 x 67.5 cm; mount 101 x 75.5 cm.

Below the image inscribed, fully signed and numbered 6/25. Verso mounted with "Certificate of Authenticity", fully signed by photographer, with embossed stamp, dated 12th November 2013.

Literature: Owen Roizman. Douglas Kirkland. An Evening/1961 with Marilyn. New York, 2015 (n.p., with ill.).

Provenance:
- Acquired directly from the artist.
- French collection.

"Through the years I have often been asked what really happened in that room with Marilyn. I can only say this: It was extremely intimate. When I looked down on her from the high position over the bed, I felt like I couldn't put film through the camera fast enough. I had no assistant there. It was just myself, the camera and Marilyn. I didn't even use a strobe light. It was just a flood light, a constant light, so that there was no interruption of flash. Frank Sinatra filled the room with his seductive, beautiful ballads. That was the atmosphere of the evening: quiet, soft, and enticing." (Kirkland cit. after Roizman 2015, n.p.)

"I was becoming very stimulated and I made no secret of it. Marilyn showed me how she felt; slithering, erotically between the sheets. I kept shooting." (Kirkland cit. after Roizman 2015, n.p.)