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Print
4-colour screenprint with hand-finishing
70 × 85 cm (unframed)
330 gsm Fedrigoni paper
Edition of 100
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In the early months of 1956, Marilyn Monroe was preparing to star in Bus Stop, discussing with Laurence Olivier a role in The Prince and the Showgirl, and romantically involved with Arthur Miller, who was in the process of divorcing his wife, Mary.
Filming of Bus Stop was completed by the end of May. Miller’s Reno divorce came through in June, and Marilyn joined him in New York, besieged by swarms of journalists.
Once the 400 pressmen had dispersed, the couple slipped away to the Westchester County Court House in nearby White Plains, where they were married by Judge Seymour Rabinowitz shortly before 7:30 pm in a ceremony that lasted only four minutes.
Some days later, Marilyn happened upon Miller’s notebook lying open on a table. Reading it, she discovered that he was disappointed in her, feared that his own creativity would be threatened by this pitiable, dependent, unpredictable waif he had married, and that he seriously regretted the union. Marilyn told friends that he had also written, “The only one I will ever love is my daughter,” though Miller could not recall having written that.
It was a blow from which the marriage would never recover. Things went steadily from bad to worse, and although Miller wrote the script of The Misfits for Marilyn, the couple separated in 1960 and divorced the following year.
