Rare topless Marilyn Monroe pics expected to fetch 15k at auction

Most Read Stories:


Why people's bodies react differently to high-fat diet

IANS reporter's story wins award

29 hurt in four bombings in Ukraine

Australian Speaker issues proof against criminal allegations

Former Delhi judge awarded 3-year jail for graft

Pigeons have 'GPS in their brain to assist in navigation

Halle Berry hits back at paparazzi

With Rs.669 crore, UP speeds up Kumbh Mela work

Tarun Anand quit as Thomson Reuters MD to concentrate on his Universal Business School

Syria killings unacceptable: Ban

India 'A' team for West Indies tour

Nepal offers to train Indian peacekeepers

Neymar vows to avenge Santos' shock defeat

Office romance 'boosts performance a! mong you ng staff'

Suicide bomber gunned down in Pakistan

Fishermen case withdrawal: Achuthanandan alleges conspiracy


London, Apr 28 : Rare nude photographs of screen siren Marilyn Monroe is to go under the hammer and is expected to fetch more than 15,000 pounds.

A complete set of rare vintage chromogenic prints from her last ever photo shoot, in which she posed topless, were taken by photographer Bert Stern in 1962 just six weeks before Monroe was found dead at the age of 36.

Original shots taken from the session, called The Last Sitting, are in huge demand across the world and were originally taken for Vogue magazine.

Because these have been displayed for many years, the colour has shifted slightly or attenuated - which is what can happen to chromogenic prints.

Sterns three-day session with the famous blonde was a return to form for the glamour queen after a few difficult years.

She is pictured playing with a see-through scarf and pouts and poses like professional model.

In the pictures she appears healthy and happy and there is no clue to suggest she was close to death.

This is a very popular set. It is unusual to find a whole set and the owner has had them since they were printed, the BBC quoted Judith Eurich, from Bonhams, which is selling the prints, as saying.

Because theyve been displayed the colour has shifted slightly, or attenuated, which is what can happen to chromogenic prints.

These were taken during Monroes last ever formal photo shoot just a few weeks before she died, which is kind of sad.

She was very ph! otogenic and knew how to seduce the camera and she enjoyed posing because it took her mind off other things.

Typically these sets are broken up and the pictures sold individually, Eurich added. (ANI)

Yearly Horoscope of 2012 for the Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius Scorpio LibraVirgoLeo Cancer Gemini Taurus Aries Pisces Aquarius Capricon

More from hollywood-news: