Marilyn Monroe Collection

 

The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe

Christie's Auction House

New York - Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 October 1999


||Lot 41 - A SCARLET DRESS

A scarlet silk halter dress, featuring full skirts of matching layered scarlet chiffon.  Worn by Marilyn Monroe in a series of photographs to advertise the Warner Bros. film The Prince and the Showgirl, 1957, in her well-known, provocative sitting for Milton Greene, where she was photographed against a black background.  Sold with a mounted color tear sheet featuring the actress in the scarlet dress.

 

Estimate:  $15,000-20,000

Selling Price:  $167,500


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