Marilyn Monroe ‘last’ pics fail to sell

Agence France-Presse

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Nude photos from Marilyn Monroe's last shoot 'failed to meet reserve price'

LAST SITTING. A Lyon and Turnbull employee poses with one of the last photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe 'Marilyn Monroe in Stripe Scarf (The Last Sitting)' by Bert Stern during a photocall in central London, on September 29, 2009. AFP PHOTO/Shaun Curry

NEW YORK, United States of America – Nude photos from what is said to have been Marilyn Monroe’s last formal photo shoot, just six weeks before her 1962 death, failed to sell at auction Tuesday, May 8, in New York.

The collection on sale as “Marilyn Monroe — Last Sitting” had an estimated value of between $18,000 and $25,000 at the Bonhams auction. However, the lot “failed to meet its reserve price,” spokeswoman Julie Saunders Guinta said.

The photographs were taken by Bert Stern during a marathon session for Vogue magazine and caught the screen queen unclothed, holding a champagne glass and lounging in bed. One shows Monroe topless and facing the camera with her arms in the air.

Monroe was found dead in her bed in August 1962. The coroner said she suffered a sleeping pill overdose and her death was considered to be probable suicide. Persistent conspiracy theories suggest that she was murdered.

Cult-like interest in the dead actress and sex symbol feeds a mini industry, including frequent discoveries of yet more previously unseen photos. – Agence France-Presse

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