Description
Artist: Bert Stern (1929-2013)
Title: The Marilyn Monroe Trip – 2
Country: USA
Medium: Serigraph
Marks: Not Signed, Not Numbered
Paper Size: 11.25 x 11.75 inch
Printed: 1968 in USA, apart from portfolio serigraphic prints for Avant-Garde
COA: Certificate of Authenticity Is Included
Matted: with acid free mat and archival quality material.
Framed: Gallery custom framed selected from the finest wood moldings
- 2” wide molding
- Inside frame size 20×20”
- Outside frame size 23×23” (Approximately).
Biography:
Bert Stern (1929 – 2013) the son of Jewish immigrants, He was raised in Brooklyn N.Y. He first work for Look magazine, then art director of Mayfair magazine, he learned how to develop film and started taking his own photographs. In 1951, he was assigned to the photographic department in Japan for the US Army. His first professional assignment was for a Smirnoff Vodka advertisement. By the late 1970’s Stern returned to the U.S. Based in New York, he continued to shoot the most famous models, musicians and actors throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, including Madonna and Kate Moss. He was the subject of the 2010 documentary, “Bert Stern: Original Madman,” directed by his secret wife, Shannah Laumeister.
