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Gone Ladies: Marilyn and Pauline Boty

13 Tuesday Feb 2024

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Marilyn Monroe, Periodicals, Poetry

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Art Decades, Bruce Davidson, Christie’s, Christopher Gregory, Christopher Logue, Colour Her Gone, Epitaph to Something’s Gotta Give, Gazelli Art House, George Barris, Gone Ladies, John Aston, Lawrence Schiller, Life Magazine, Marc Kristal, Marilyn in Beads, Marilyn Monroe, My Colouring Book, Pauline Boty, Picture Show, Pop Art, Richard Avedon, Some Like It Hot, Something's Got To Give, Sue Tate, Tara Hanks, The Only Blonde in the World, Town Magazine

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 →

Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archive

05 Sunday Dec 2010

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction

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Andre De Dienes, Arthur Miller, Bus Stop, Cindy De La Hoz, George Barris, Janice Anderson, Jenna Glatzer, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archive, Platinum Fox, Susan Doll

Cindy De La Hoz is an American film historian, and has previously written about Lana Turner and Lucille Ball, as well as Platinum Fox (2007), a pictorial retrospective of Marilyn Monroe’s career at Twentieth Century Fox. The latter book was followed by a miniature edition, simply entitled Marilyn.

Marilyn Monroe: The Personal Archive is a broader look at Monroe’s life. It also features twenty facsimile documents, and is published in the UK by Carlton Books. In 2008, the US bookstore, Barnes & Noble, released a similar photo-biography with inserts, Jenna Glatzer’s The Marilyn Monroe Treasures.

Like Platinum Fox, De La Hoz’s book is lavishly designed, with a cushioned cover and pastel colour scheme. Continue reading →

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