A pop-up exhibition of extraordinary limited edition prints of the legendary Marilyn Monroe to celebrate what would have been her 90th birthday.
With a roulette table and bunny girls from the The Playboy Club London on the evening of Marilyn’s birthday, the collection will include very rare images signed personally by Hugh Hefner, including a nude Marilyn as Playboy’s first ever “Sweetheart of the Month” – an image that was instrumental in launching the magazine to become a global phenomenon.
Indeed Hefner became so enamoured with the star, that in 1992, he even purchased the burial vault adjoining Marilyn’s at the Westwood Memorial Park in LA for US$50,000
The images span 16 years of Marilyn’s short life, from 1946 as a young ingénue known as Norma Jean Baker to the famous ‘Last Sitting’ images by Bert Stern taken just six weeks before her death. Many of the over 50 images are truly iconic and include the famous billowing white dress pictures from Seven Year Itch, the prophetic Crucifix shots from the Last Sitting (the pictures she never wanted published), to rare images of a very young, fresh and innocent Norma Jean by Tom Kelley.
The exhibition will feature works by acclaimed artists and photographers such as Andy Warhol, Milton Greene, Frank Worth, Douglas Kirkland, Tom Kelley and Earl Moran, to name but a few.
To register for an invite to the opening night private view party go to www.ongallery.com/en/marilyn-competition, or to view the collection go to www.ongallery.com/en/collections/marilyn-monroe
