102796 | UNITED STATES & GREAT BRITAIN. Marilyn Monroe cast bronze Medal.

102796  |  UNITED STATES & GREAT BRITAIN. Marilyn Monroe cast bronze Medal. Issued 2000. "A Medal for Mailyn" (115mm x 130mm, 1.97 kg, 12h). By D. Thomson.

 

Head of Marilyn facing slightly left // MEDAL FOR MARILYN, iconic pose of Marilyn from The Seven Year Itch; "For ever, / and ever, / Ah....Men." in three lines to left. Edge: DGT 2000 1.

 

The Medal –; De Beeldenaar –. As made. Light olive-brown surfaces, with tremendous heft and relief. Extremely rare, and the first of just two produced.

 

An iconic Hollywood actress and one of the most popular sex symbols of the mid-20th century, Marilyn Monroe was also a forerunner to the era's sexual revolution. On this incredibly rare work of medallic art, which is just one of two produced, artist Diana Thomson recreated one of Monroe's more famous scenes—that in which her skirt is being uplifted by a subway train traveling beneath her. This scene occurred in the 1955 film, The Seven Year Itch directed by Billy Wilder.

 

Ex David Nicholas Silich Collection (acquired from Howard & Frances Simmons, 2000).

 

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