Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

Folio. 6 (of 10) silver gelatin prints of Marilyn Monroe, professionally matted as issued. 11 x 14 in., each with Halsman/Marilyn copyright stamp with edition limitation on verso. Original grey cloth portfolio with paper label (soiling).

LIMITED EDITION, number 136 of 250 copies, SIGNED BY YVONNE HALSMAN. All photographs included in the present portfolio were shot during Halsman's famous 1952 photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe for LIFE magazine, including the cover shot which appeared on the 7 April 1952 issue. Halsman would later write of the shoot, "I drove to the outskirts of Los Angeles, where she lived in a two-room apartment. What impressed me in the living room was the obvious striving for self-improvement. I saw a photograph of Eleanora Duse and a multitude of books that I did not expect to find there, like the works of Dostoevsky, Freud, the history of Fabian socialism, etc. On the floor were two barbells.”