27 Monday May 2024
Posted in Fashion and Beauty, Marilyn Monroe
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Marie Irvine, who worked as a make-up artist to Marilyn Monroe in New York, died aged 99 in a Florida care facility on January 15, 2024. Continue reading
15 Wednesday May 2024
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Anna Strasberg, widow of Actors Studio founder Lee Strasberg and inheritor of Marilyn Monroe’s estate, died aged 84 on January 6, 2024. Continue reading
25 Thursday Apr 2024
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Actress Diana Herbert, who met Marilyn Monroe on the set of her first movie, died aged 95 in Los Angeles on May 3, 2023. Continue reading
22 Friday Mar 2024
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Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give – a 1962 painting by British pop artist Pauline Boty – was sold for £1,310,500 at Christie’s in London this week. It was one of three works inspired by Marilyn Monroe, whose influence I’ve discussed here – and the highest price reached for the late artist’s work to date. Continue reading
13 Tuesday Feb 2024
Posted in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Poetry
≈ Comments Off on Gone Ladies: Marilyn and Pauline Boty
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At left, Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1959; and at right, Pauline Boty by John Aston, 1962
Pauline Boty was an English pop artist who created three paintings of Marilyn before her death from cancer, aged 28, in 1966. Although neglected for many years, Boty’s work is now being rediscovered – and in March, one of her Marilyn portraits will go under the hammer at Christie’s, as Joe Dziemianowicz reports for Barron’s Magazine. Continue reading
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