Roses Body Shot in 1962 - printed at a later date. This item is blue silkscreen on gold foiling and is hand signed in black felt-tip ink by Bert Stern on the right bottom side. Review all photographs please. 32 x 40 approximately. The bottom right is the most dinged up corner out of the other ones displaying lots of creasing and bends, the bottom left also displays similar quality but not as strong as the bottom right, still displaying creasing and bending and dings. The top right corner also displays those imperfections while the top right does as well.
This is very rare and only 300 originals like this were produced and hand signed by Bert Stern himself.
"In the 1960s, his heavy use of amphetamines led to the end of his marriage to ballerina Allegra Kent. He was one of the last photographers to shoot Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. Monroe died in August 1962. These sessions became known as The Last Sitting; The 2571 photographs taken on these sessions were published after her death in The Complete Last Sitting in 1992. In the 1970s, Stern moved to Spain to recover from his drug addiction. By the late 1970s, Stern returned to the U.S. to photograph portraits and fashion. In 1979, he published "The Pill Book", along with journalist Lawrence Chilnick. This A to Z guide of the most prescribed drugs in the US, which sold 18 million copies, included color photographs of the pills by Stern."