Profiles in History 15/12/2012: documents et objets
Profiles in History: Documents et Photos inédites aux enchères
Partie 1/ Vente aux enchères organisée par Profiles in History. Le site de vente aux enchères ArtFact propose de nombreux lots aux enchères concernant Marilyn Monroe. On y retrouve des objets divers à l'effigie de la star (puzzle, tableaux...), des documents écrits (lettres, chèques, autographes signés par Marilyn), et des photographies, dont certaines totalement inédites; les lots sont présentés sur le site jusqu'au 29 novembre 2012 et la vente s'effectuera les 15 et 16 décembre 2012. Voici les lots sur les documents papiers et les divers objets:
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> Autographe (lot 119)
"To Kirk, Best Luck Always, Marilyn Monroe"
Le photographe Kirk Crivello a obtenu cette photo signée en rencontrant Marilyn au Mocambo nighclub de Hollywood en 1951.
> Autographe (lot 417)
"To Teddy, From all I hear you sound - nice! Marilyn Monroe"
> Lettre 2 pages de Marilyn à Norman Rosten (lot 189)
non datée (circa 1954-55)
Marilyn Monroe écrit à son ami proche à propos de sa dépressione et son désir d'avoir un enfant (et seulement un garçon plutôt qu'une fille, tel un désir "freudien"):
“Dear Norman, It feels a little funny to be writing the name Norman since my own name is Norma and it feels like I’m writing my own name almost, However--
First, thanks for letting Sam and me visit you and Hedda last Saturday. It was nice. I enjoyed meeting your wife - she seemed so warm to me. Thanks the most for your book of poetry--with which I spent all Sunday morning in bed with. It touched me - I use to think if I had ever had a child I would have wanted only a son, but after reading - Songs for Patricia - I know I would have loved a little girl just as much but maybe the former feeling was only Freudian for something...anyway Frued [sic]
I use to write poetry sometimes but usually I was very depressed at those times and the few (about two) people said that it depressed them, in fact one cried but it was an old friend I’d known for years. So anyway thanks. And my best to Hedda & Patricia and you-- Marilyn M.”
> Lettre 3 pages de DiMaggio à Marilyn (lot 292)
du 15 juillet 1952
Dear Marilyn, I just got through talking with you--and I don’t know what else to say than I have already said. However, it bothers me (call it guilt or what have you) to think about what happened the day I left for New York. I definately [sic] am punishing myself. I have always felt that I’ve been able to ‘take’ it, but in this particular instance, I find myself rather cold. It annoys me no end to think that I have ‘bit’ your feelings: you of all people, would be the last one I’d hurt! It has never been my nature to do that to anyone, and I’m certainly not going to start now. I’d rather take an ‘airship’--bow out gracefully is what I mean--rather than give you any misieres [sic; i.e., plural of misery], and please don’t get the idea I am saying these things because I want things to change -on the contrary, I have among other things great respect for you. For the time that I know you--you have done nothing but good--for me and some of your acquaintances--you have done nothing but take the worse of things when other people are involved in rough spots, and in our mild mannered way, people have taken advantage of you. I know all these things about you, and a lot more. I guess I could also mention how much you try, in everything that you do. Especially when you were here and went shopping just to please me. So you see Marilyn, I appreciate you as a real, solid, human soul, with tremendous inner feelings.
What you have already read has been put mildly and very brief.
I am handing you the ‘deck’ of cards now--you schuffle [sic] them and deal; all I ask is you forgive me. Love Joe.
> Chèque de $138.25 à City Collector (lot 75)
du 14 octobre 1959
> Chèque de $14.25 à Colonial Trust Company (lot 76)
du 28 octobre 1960 
> Autographe Dimaggio & Marilyn (lot 1240)
de 1954
"Best wishes, Joe DiMaggio" / "Love & Kisses, Marilyn Monroe" 
> Photos d'école signée par Norma Jeane (lot 1241)
de 1941 Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School
"To a swell, nice & perfect girl[?], Norma Jeane Baker." 
> Script 'The Misfits' de Clark Gable (lot 329)
Gable a donné son scrpt à Arthur Rosson le dernier jour de tournage
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> Caméra 'Mitchell BNC #206' pour The Misfits (lot 418)
(Seven Arts Prod., 1961)
This Mitchell BNC #206 was used as the principal first unit camera on Marilyn Monroe's final completed film The Misfits.
Julien's Auction 11/2012 - Documents papiers
lot n°551: MARILYN MONROE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PROGRAM
A program for the June 26, 1941, graduation ceremony held at Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School in Los Angeles. The program is separated into a list of girl and boy graduates. Norma Jeane Baker, the future Marilyn Monroe, is listed as a graduate. The cover of the paper program reads "Ralph Waldo Emerson/ Junior High School/ Class of Summer 1941/ New Frontiers of Friendship/ June The Twenty-Sixth at Four-Thirty."
9 by 6 1/4 inches
Estimate: $200 - $400 
lot n°551: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED 1957 LETTER
A typed letter from Marilyn Monroe, dated "May 7, 1957" and written to Warner Bros. Pictures, permitting them to use her name in the dialogue of their film Green Eyes ; signed by Monroe in blue fountain pen ink. Attached is a typed page of dialogue from the film where Monroe's name was used, in part, "JOYCE: / (before mirror)/ How's my hair?/ BETSY:/ (genuine admiration)/ It's beautiful, Joyce!/ JOYCE:/ (preening herself)/ It's kind of the way Marilyn Monroe does hers." The letter is framed with an image of Monroe and two other documents; a carbon copy of a letter sent to Warner Bros. Pictures from Monroe's secretary regarding this matter; and the original request letter sent to "Mrs. Lilian Dean" at Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc.
Letter, 11 by 8 1/2 inches; 23 by 38 1/2 inches, framed
Estimate: $3 000 - $4 000
lot n°552: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED CUT SHEET
A Marilyn Monroe signed piece of paper, affixed to larger board. Monroe has signed her name in red ink.
5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches, overall
Estimate: $800 - $1 200 
lot n°596: MARILYN MONROE AND ARTHUR MILLER SIGNED PLAYBILL
A playbill cover signed in pencil by Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. The playbill was from a 1957 production of The Waltz of the Toreadors at the Coronet Theatre in New York City. Affixed at corners to black matte board.
Playbill, 9 by 6 3/4 inches; Board, 12 3/4 by 10 inches
Estimate: $2 000 - $4 000
lot n°598: MARILYN MONROE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
A three-page "conformed" copy of Marilyn Monroe's Last Will & Testament administered by Weisberger & Frosch (New York) one year before her death, dated January 14, 1961. She bequeathed her belongings to several recipients, which provides great insight into her wishes shortly before her passing. Half-sister Berniece Miracle inherited $10,000.00, secretary and friend May Reis received the same amount, Norman and Hedda Rosten received $5,000.00, and mother Gladys Baker received $5,000.00 per year for her upkeep in institutions. Also present is original document cover and transmittal envelope.
14 by 9 inches, unfolded
PROVENANCE Lot 163, "Property From the Estate of Marilyn Monroe," Julien's Auctions, Los Angeles, June 4, 2005
Estimate: $5 000 - $7 000
lot n°599: MARILYN MONROE FUNERAL CARD
An original card from the funeral of Marilyn Monroe on Wednesday, August 8, 1962, at the Westwood Village Mortuary in Los Angeles. The front of the card bears an image of the Bok Singing Tower. The inside reads in part "In Memory of Marilyn Monroe" with the details of her funeral service and Psalm 23.
Estimate: $600 - $800
lot n°600: MARILYN MONROE CECIL BEATON TRIPTYCH
A three-panel sterling silver custom-made Cartier frame, gifted to Marilyn Monroe by Nedda and Joshua Logan. The center frame houses a black and white silver gelatin print of the portrait Cecil Beaton took of Monroe in 1956. This image is purported to be Monroe’s favorite image of herself. The portrait is mounted to board and signed on matte by Beaton. The center frame is engraved at the top “For Marilyn Monroe Miller” and at the bottom “Love Nedda and Joshua Logan.” Joshua Logan directed Monroe in her 1956 film Bus Stop . The left and right frames house a handwritten letter from Cecil Beaton describing Monroe. It reads in part, “But the real marvel is the paradox – somehow we know that this extraordinary performance is pure charade, a little girl’s caricature of Mae West. The puzzling truth is that Miss Monroe is a make-believe siren, unsophisticated as a Rhine maiden, innocent as a sleepwalker. She is an urchin pretending to be grown-up, having the time of her life in mother’s moth-eaten finery, tottering about in high-heeled shoes and sipping gingerale as though it were a champagne cocktail. There is an otherworldly, a winsome naiveté about the child’s eyes…” The portrait can be seen in images of Monroe’s living room, where it was housed from 1956 until the actress’ death in 1962.
PROVENANCE Lot 22 "The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe," Christie's, New York, Sale number 9216, October 27 & 28, 1999
Estimate: $35 000 - $40 000
Julien's Auction 11/2012 - Photos Diverses
lot n°526: MARILYN MONROE YEARBOOK
A Chiefton 1942 Yearbook from University High School in Los Angeles. Marilyn Monroe appears on page 48 as a tenth grade student. Some notations written in pencil within the book by the student who owned the book.
Estimate: $600 - $800
lot n°527: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES BY DAVID CONOVER
A group of four color photographs and two Kodachrome transparency slides of Marilyn Monroe, taken by David Conover in 1945. These photographs represent some of Monroe's earliest modeling images. Photographs printed circa 1987.
Photogaphs, 10 by 8 inches
Estimate: $300 - $500
lot n°528: MARILYN MONROE PIN-UP POSTER
Color lithograph poster showing an almost life-size full-length image of Marilyn Monroe in a bath suit from a photograph taken in the 1940s. Reads at bottom right " 'Marilyn Monroe Pin-Up,'/write: Pin-Ups, Dept. X, Box 86, Boston Mass./ Printed in U.S.A."
62 by 21 1/2 inches
Estimate: $600 - $800 
lot n°547: MARILYN MONROE GOLDEN DREAMS CALENDAR
A Marilyn Monroe "Golden Dreams" calendar from 1953. The calendar reads "Souvenir of New York City."
17 by 11 inches, framedcc
Estimate: $200 - $400
lot n°550: MARILYN MONROE LAS VEGAS PHOTOGRAPH
A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe circa 1947. The photograph is stamped on verso "Ullom Studio Photo Las Vegas, Nev." The reason for Monroe's appearance in Nevada is explained by Monroe's former boyfriend, Bill Pursel, in the book Marilyn Monroe : Private and Undisclosed by Michelle Morgan. Pursel explains that Monroe was in Las Vegas for a show at the Flamingo Hotel. Monroe is seen in the photograph, second from right, in a one-piece bathing suit. The photograph was obtained from the estate of a former Flamingo Hotel housekeeping manager.
8 by 10 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600
lot n°562: MARILYN MONROE NEGATIVES AND COPYRIGHT
A group of five negatives of Marilyn Monroe taken circa 1952 by photographer William Kotler and sold with the copyrights. During the filming of How to Marry a Millionaire (20th Century Fox, 1953), Monroe posed for publicity photographs at Greenacres, the home of actor and photographer Harold Lloyd. It was there that Kotler took these photographs showing Monroe in various poses, reclining on a lounge chair poolside. Rights to these images will be transferred to the winning bidder.
4 by 5 inches each
Estimate: $2 000 - $3 000 
lot n°563: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK WORTH
A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe on the set of How to Marry a Millionaire (20th Century Fox, 1953), taken by Frank Worth circa 1953. Gelatin silver print, printed later in a limited edition. Embossed in margin with Frank Worth Estate copyright stamp and numbered 100/195.
16 by 20 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600 
lot n°564: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIPPE HALSMAN
"Marilyn Monroe Laughing," taken by Philippe Halsman in 1954. Gelatin silver print, printed 1978. Artist's blind stamp lower right, titled and dated in pencil on verso, artist's copyright stamp on verso.
14 by 11 inches; 20 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches
Estimate: $1 000 - $2 000 
lot n°565: MARILYN MONROE INSCRIBED MAGAZINE COVER
A Marilyn Monroe signed magazine cover from the August 1954 issue of Modern Photography. Inscribed by Monroe "To Roy Green/ Love & Kisses/ Marilyn Monroe."
15 1/2 by 12 3/4 inches, framed
Estimate: $3 000 - $5 000 
lot n°566: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANK WORTH
A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe, taken by Frank Worth circa 1949. Gelatin silver print, printed later in a limited edition. Embossed in margin with Frank Worth Estate copyright stamp and numbered 100/195.
20 by 16 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600
lot n°567: MARILYN MONROE SIGNED CUT SHEET AND CANDID PHOTOGRAPHS
A scrapbook containing original vintage candid black and white photographs of the cast on the set of River of No Return (20th Century Fox, 1954) accompanied by three cut sheets with the signatures of Marilyn Monroe, Robert Mitchum, and Rory Calhoun.
7 1/2 by 10 inches
Estimate: $1 000 - $2 000
lot n°568: MARILYN MONROE GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEGATIVES
A group comprised of five photographs and five copy negatives of Marilyn Monroe, from the archive of Monroe's makeup artist, Allan "Whitey" Snyder. Taken by various photographers at varying sets and locations.
Largest, 8 by 10 inches
PROVENANCE From the estate of Allan "Whitey" Snyder
Estimate: $200 - $400
lot n°571: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH
A candid black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe while filming The Seven Year Itch (20th Century Fox, 1955). The photograph was taken by an unknown photographer on September 15, 1954, outside the Trans-Lux Theatre on 52nd and Lexington in New York City. It is believed that this photograph has never before been published.
5 by 3 1/4 inches
Estimate: $400 - $600
lot n°597: MARILYN MONROE PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE SET OF SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE
A black and white photograph of Marilyn Monroe taken by Lawrence Schiller. The photograph shows Monroe in the pool on the set of Something's Got to Give (20th Century, 1962). Stamped on verso with copyright information as well as a sticker from The New Ingot Company.
10 by 6 3/4 inches
PROVENANCE Lot 359, "Summer Entertainment Sale," Julien's Auctions, Las Vegas, June 21, 2008
Estimate: $800 - $1 200 
1945 Beach Sitting - Bikini - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane sur une plage au Nord de Malibu, Californie, en 1945
photographiée par André De Dienes.
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1945 Beach Sitting - Yellow Bikini - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane sur une plage au Nord de Malibu, Californie, en 1945
photographiée par André De Dienes.
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- Magazines -
Pageant - 06/1946 - USA
De Prins Reporter - 14/08/1948 - Hollande
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1945 Beach Sitting - Green Sweater - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane sur une plage au Nord de Malibu, Californie, en 1945
photographiée par André De Dienes.
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1945 Beach Sitting - Striped Shirt - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane sur une plage au Nord de Malibu, Californie, en 1945
photographiée par André De Dienes.
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1945 Beach Sitting - Red Sweater - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane sur une plage au Nord de Malibu, Californie, en 1945
photographiée par André De Dienes.
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- Magazines -
US Camera - 05/1946 - USA
Films pour tous - 27/08/1946 - France
Ilustrado - 03/1947 - Puerto Rico
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copyright text by GinieLand.
Décembre 1945 West Trip - Road Sitting - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane en Californie en décembre 1945
photographiée par André De Dienes.
> Séance sur la route
Commentaires d' André De Dienes*:
Nous étions à peine sortis de Los Angeles qu'un motard de la police m'arrêta pour infraction au code de la route. Voyant Norma Jeane assise à mes côtés, il avait dû être jaloux ! Elle fut indignée. De sa petite voix douce, elle le traita d'escroc, affirmant que nous n'avions rien fait de mal. Le motard répondit qu'il ne nous mettrait pas d'amende si elle acceptait de passer la nuit au poste avec lui. Il ne plaisantait qu'à moitié. Je lui donnais vingt dollars et nous reprîmes la route. Ce ne fut que la première d'une longue série de propositions qu'on lui fit tout au long du voyage. C'était incryable, un peu partout, les hommes lui faisaient des avances. (...)
Peu après l'incident avec le motard, je lui demandai de poser sur le bord de la grande route, pieds nus, en train de se tresser des couettes. Soudain, pendant que je la prenais en photo, j'eus une étrange révélation quasi mystique. Pointant un doigt vers les petites étoiles de sa jupe rouge, je déclarai qu'elles signifiaient qu'elle deviendrait un jour une immense étoile de cinéma. Je me mis à déblatérer sur sa future vie fabuleuse, sur le fait que la route derrière elle symbolisait sa destinée et que nous étions en train de réaliser les premières images annonçant ses futurs et nombreux succès!
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*(source: coffret André De Dienes, Marilyn, publié chez Taschen en 2002)
Décembre 1945 Meadow Sitting - Norma Jeane par André De Dienes
Norma Jeane en Californie en décembre 1945
Elle est vêtue d'une robe et d'un tablier, tel le personnage de Dorothy (interprété par Judy Garland) dans Le Magicien d'Oz
photographiée par André De Dienes.
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- Magazines -
The Family Circle - 26/04/1946 - USA
Eva - 04/04/1947 - Hollande
Kroniek Van De Week - 12/03/1949 - Pays-Bas
La Patrie - 04/1949, Suisse
Schweizer Familien Wochenblatt - non daté
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copyright text by GinieLand.
