Essentially Marilyn: The Auction
All 145 lots of Profiles in History: Essentially Marilyn: The Auction (Dec 11, 2018). 108 sold, 74% sell-through. Top lot $100,000.
Auction facts
- Auction house
- Profiles in History
- Date
- 2018-12-11
- Location
- Calabasas, CA
- Lots offered
- 145
Lots
- Lot 1: Marilyn Monroe inscribed personal baby photograph, “Me, when I was very small”
- Lot 2: Marilyn Monroe personal baby photograph - Norma Jeane at 8 to 10 months
- Lot 3: Marilyn Monroe personal baby photograph - Norma Jeane at 15 months
- Lot 4: Marilyn Monroe inscribed personal childhood photograph, “Mother with Lester and me…” (1927) Vintage original gelatin silver 4.5 x 2.5 in. photograph of toddler Norma Jeane and Lester Bolender
- Lot 5: Marilyn Monroe childhood photograph - Norma Jeane at 2 years old
- Lot 6: Marilyn Monroe hand-color tinted childhood photograph - Norma Jeane on the beach at 3 years old
- Lot 7: Marilyn Monroe teenage photograph - Norma Jeane at 13 years old
- Lot 8: Marilyn Monroe inscribed personal childhood photograph, “First boyfriend…both age 5”
- Lot 9: Marilyn Monroe childhood photograph - Norma Jeane at 6 years old
- Lot 10: Marilyn Monroe childhood photograph - Norma Jeane at 9 years old
- Lot 11: Marilyn Monroe inscribed personal family photograph, “Uncle Marion...with Grandmother and Cousin Jack”
- Lot 12: Marilyn Monroe (6) personal photographs of her mother, Gladys Baker
- Lot 13: Marilyn Monroe family ephemera including a subpoena issued to Grace Goddard for the commitment hearing of Marilyn’s mother, Gladys Baker
- Lot 14: Marilyn Monroe personal photograph - Norma Jeane at the beach on Catalina Island
- Lot 15: Marilyn Monroe personal teenage photograph – Norma Jeane with the Emerson Girl’s Glee Club
- Lot 16: Marilyn Monroe excessively rare signed class photo from Ralph Waldo Emerson Junior High School
- Lot 17: Marilyn Monroe personal teenage photograph - Norma Jeane at 14 years old
- Lot 18: Marilyn Monroe Emerson Institute commencement program
- Lot 19: Marilyn Monroe personal teenage photograph - Norma Jeane at 15 years old
- Lot 20: Marilyn Monroe inscribed personal photograph, “Jimmy at 17 yrs …” (1938) Vintage original gelatin silver 2.5 x 3.5 in
- Lot 21: Marilyn Monroe personal wedding photograph - Norma Jeane Baker and Jim Dougherty
- Lot 22: Marilyn Monroe personal invitation for her wedding to Jim Dougherty
- Lot 23: Marilyn Monroe (3) personal photographs from her meeting with half-sister, Berniece Baker Miracle
- Lot 24: Marilyn Monroe personal Radioplane beauty contest photograph