Vintage Andre De Dienes Large Format Fine Art Photograph Joanne Arnold




Item History & Price

Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:611918Size: Medium (up to 36in.)
Year: c. 1950sRegion of Origin: North America
Features: Certificate of Authenticity, Ink Stamped, Double WeightArtist: Andre de Dienes
Width (Inches): 10 3/4Style: Vintage
Color: Black & WhiteListed By: Dealer or Reseller
Photo Type: Gelatin SilverQuantity Type: Single-Piece Work
Subject: NudesDate of Creation: 1950-1969
Originality: OriginalColor Type: Black & White
Height (Inches): 13 1/2
Original Description:


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ITEM: This is a stunning vintage and original, large format, silver gelatin nude fine art photograph by Hungarian-American photographer Andre de Dienes. An exquisite portrait photograph by the unmatched photographer whose career sent him around the world photographing stunning nude models in nature. A dynamic and alluring nude photograph of actress Joanne Arnold. Standing with her hand over her head and her body slightly twisted, this photograph is simultaneously austere and vivacious. The tonal quality and lighting create a stunning image that we are delighted to offer.   

Well known for his sensual nude photography, Andre de Dienes is perhaps best remembered for his portraits of a young pin-up model named Marilyn Monroe. A delightful mid-century artifact, this photograph comes with a COA certifying that this image was hand developed and stamped by the artist.

Measures 10 1/2" x 13 3/4" on a glossy, double weight paper stock.
Photographer's ink stamp on verso.

CONDITION: Fine+ condition with minor softening/creasing to the corners and a few minor scattered surface impressions only visible under raking light. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.

Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

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Andre de Dienes (born Andor György Ikafalvi-Dienes) (December 18, 1913 – April 11, 1985) was a Hungarian-American photographer, noted for his work with Marilyn Monroe and his nude photography.

Dienes was born in Transylvania, Austria-Hungary, on December 18, 1913, and left home at 15 after the suicide of his mother. Dienes travelld across Europe mostly on foot, until his arrival in Tunisia. In Tunisia he purchased his first camera, a 35mm Retina. Returning to Europe he arrived in Paris in 1933 to study art, and bought a Rolleiflex shortly after. Dienes began work as a professional photographer for the Communist newspaper L'Humanité, and was employed by the Associated Press until 1936, when the Parisian couturier Captain Molyneux noted his work and urged him to become a fashion photographer. In 1938 the editor of Esquire, Arnold Gingrich offered him work in New York City, and helped fund Dienes' passage to the United States. Once in the United States Dienes worked for Vogue andLife magazines as well as Esquire. When not working as a fashion photographer Dienes travelled the USA photographing Native American culture, including the Apache, Hopi, and Navajo reservations and their inhabitants. Dissatisfied with his life as a fashion photographer in New York, Dienes moved to California in 1944, where he began to specialise in nudes and landscapes.As well as Monroe, Dienes also photographed such notable actors as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Reagan, Jane Russell, Anita Ekberg and Fred Astaire. De Dienes married twice, and died of cancer on April 11, 1985.

In 1945 Dienes met the nineteen year old Marilyn Monroe, then called Norma Jean Baker, who was a model on the books of Emmeline Snively’s Blue Book Model Agency. Snively told Dienes of Norma Jean, and suggested her for his project of photographing artistic nudes. In his memoirs Dienes described the first time he met Monroe saying "...it was as if a miracle had happened to me. Norma Jean seemed to be like an angel. I could hardly believe it for a few moments. An earthly, sexy-looking angel! Sent expressly for me!" His series of pin-up shots of her at Long Island's Tobay Beach, in Oyster Bay, New York became notable. Norma Jean had recently separated from her husband, James Dougherty and told Dienes of her wish to become an actress. Dienes suggested that they go on a road trip to photograph her in the natural landscapes, for which Dienes paid her a flat fee of $200. Dienes had earlier been present at the first meeting of Monroe and her mother in six years, and had presumptuously announced to her mother that he and Monroe were to be married. His photographs of Monroe from this trip sold widely and he made far more money from the images, and did not offer Monroe a percentage of the sales, or paid her on the profits. Dienes next met her on Labor Day in 1946, with her new name of Marilyn Monroe, they next worked together in 1952, where he shot her at the Bel Air Hotel and 1953, where she telephoned him at 2am, and took him to a darkened street where he used his car headlights to illuminate her, taking pictures her wide-eyed and unmade up. Dienes last saw her alive in June 1961. Of their last meeting he said that "...her success was a sham, her hopes thwarted...the next day she left a bouquet outside my door: a selection of her latest photos. Smiling, radiant - utterly misleading; I little guessed that this was our last goodbye.”

— Biography From Wikipedia

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