Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
Marilyn never met Bob Dylan, but he’s a fan of hers (see here.) Now Bert Stern’s photos of Marilyn meet Jerry Schatzberg’s shots of Dylan in Bob and Marilyn, on display at the Galerie Dina Vierny in Paris until March 31.
Thanks to Eric Patry
Twelve images from Douglas Kirkland’s 1961 photo session with Marilyn are featured in a new exhibition at the Galerie GADCOLLECTION in Paris, alongside his portraits of Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn and others, on display until December 8th.
Thanks to Ma Zaz at Marilyn Remembered
In addition to their current exhibition, Divine Marilyn, Galerie Joseph in Paris will host a live adaptation of her 1954 memoir, My Story, from September 5-9. With the rather more poetic title of Confession Inachevée (‘Unfinished Confession’), the show will star actress Stéphanie Sphyras, and promises to be a cut above other Monroe-themed stage plays.
The Divine Marilyn exhibition (first reported here) has now opened at Galerie Joseph at 116 rue Turenne in Paris, through to September 22. You can read a report (in French) on the launch over here. (Photos by Joshua Greene, and Ma Zaz at Marilyn Remembered.)
A Gordon Parks photo of Marilyn has sold for €10,625, and a Cecil Beaton photo (shown above) for €5,000, as part of the Icons Of Glamour & Style auction at Christie’s in Paris yesterday.
Original photos of Marilyn by Andre de Dienes, Cecil Beaton, Gordon Parks, Eric Skipsey and Bert Stern will be auctioned at Christie’s in Paris on June 19, as part of the Icons of Glamour and Style sale, taken from the collection of Leon Constantiner.
It’s a fine Parisian tradition to make Marilyn a poster girl for the annual Champs-Élysées Film Festival (see previous entries here) and this year is no exception. The festival, showcasing independent French and American movies, runs from June 18-25, with guest stars including actors Kyle MacLachlan, Christopher Walken, Jeff Goldblum, and filmmaker Debra Granik.
Divine Marilyn, an exhibition featuring 200 photos by Milton Greene, Sam Shaw, Bert Stern and others, will open at Galerie Joseph in Paris on July 9 through to September 22, Vogue reports.
Hollywood Menteur (or Hollywood Liar) is a new comic book inspired by The Misfits, from the French cartoonist Luz. As you may recall, a despairing Marilyn calls her cowboy friends ‘liars’ during her furious speech in the desert. It’s also the subject of an exhibition in Paris, as Jacques LeRoux tells Marilyn Remembered.
“Today in Paris, I stumbled by accident on the new show at Huberty Breyne Gallery (specialist in Comics Art). It’s the first show ever of caricaturist Luz, who just released his latest comic book … The exhibition presents the original comic strips for show and sale.
You might not have heard about Luz but here in France he is very well know because of his provocative Charlie Hebdo covers and because he is one of the few survivors of the January 7, 2015 terrorist attack and killings at Charlie Hebdo. Shortly after the attack, he decided to quit his work as a newspaper caricaturist and receded into anonymity, guarded 24/7 by government security agents.
Today, I started chatting with the gallery’s owner who told me Luz was at the opening of the show last Thursday (he came heavily guarded, what a life…) and when asked : ‘Why Marilyn?’, he said he became obsessed by Marilyn and The Misfits shortly after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Watching the movie again and later reading all he could about its stars and the filming, he felt he could relate to the anguish and pain Marilyn was going through at the time (and that himself still goes through, for a whole different reason). And that he felt in love with her all over again.
Hollywood Menteur shows a very violent and disturbing image of Marilyn (and Monty, and Clark, and John…). Marilyn is a woman fighting for her own survival among a team of colleagues, some of them also on their way to extinction. Luz did not want to draw Marilyn in a realistic way but as a metaphor for fright and anger. Just what Luz still feels, 4 years after the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Isn’t it intriguing and moving that Luz found in a screaming Marilyn Monroe his own way of expressing his frustration over the ordeal he went through on that dreadful day at Charlie Hebdo?
One room in the show is all devoted to 8 expressionist portraits of Marilyn. Blood red.
Very intense and powerful stuff indeed…”
Milton Greene’s photos of Marilyn and other stars will be on display at La Galerie de l’Instant in Paris from December 12 until February 27, 2019, Vogue reports.
