Ron Lesser

Marilyn Monroe - Fetish

Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed Lower Center Dimensions: 31.00" x 25.00"

Signed Lower Right by Artist A portrait of Marilyn Monroe wearing a white dress and white fur stole with diamond earrings

Original book cover illustration for "The Wench is Dead," published by Centipede Press.

Signed Lower Right by Artist

Alea Pınar du Pre was born in Vienna, where she grew up under the intense influence of the artistic legacy left by the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstatte. Du Pre studied mark...

Sandra Melin Marilyn Monroe The Last Session (1962) Acrylic on canvas / stretcher Signed on the front and back 2026 100 x 100 cm 1,700 euros

An iconic Hollywood star, portrayed at the start of her film career. This linen canvas is stretched over a robust stretcher/strainer and is supplied ready to hang with the necess...

Robert Mars’ graphic compositions and rich colors provide an ideal medium in which to explore his fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and the icons of the 1950’s and 60’s. Drawing inspiration from the near-mythical fame that surrounded celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe or Audrey Hepburn before the instant and all-encompassing presence of the internet, Mars’ daring approach creates paintings with a nostalgic yet innovative vintage quality. Mars begins by defining borders and background planes of color with sheets of brown paper and then proceeds to layer paint and vintage paper ephemera. He selectively sands segments of the layers, allowing specific portions of the underpainting to shine through, creating the sensation that the viewer is getting glimpses through a window into the Golden Age of America. By incorporating actual pieces of print from the eras he so adores and sealing it all under shining, impenetrable resin, Mars’s artworks transform into physical remembrances of a period in America’s past so loved and idolized, yet will forever remain trapped in history. A graduate of Parsons School of Design in New York, his artwork was selected for the Absolut Vodka Blank campaign alongside Damien Hirst, and his largest sized piece to date was acquired by Philip Morris/Altria for their corporate headquarters in Virginia. In 2015 Mars was chosen for the cover of Neiman Marcus’ May Book, while CocaCola purchased several existing works and ordered commissions for a world tour celebrating the 100-year anniversary of their trademark bottle shape, in which his artwork was spotlighted. Mars is a featured artist for a custom high end wallpaper and tile series with Kari Whitman...