2023 FALL PREMIER AUCTION
Wed, Nov 15, 2023 09:00PM EST - Sun, Dec 3, 2023 09:51AM EST
Timed Auction
Lot 358
5/12/1957 Marilyn Monroe "First Kick" (Before Exhibition Soccer Match at Ebbets Field) Original Barney Stein 11x14 Framed Photo Stein Family Collecti
Unsold
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Directly from the family estate collection of Barney Stein comes this large-format 11" by 14" original photograph of Marilyn Monroe at Ebbets Field performing the ceremonial "first kick" before a May 12, 1957 exhibition soccer match between the American All-Stars and Hapoel Tel Aviv, Israel's top football club. Accompanied by players and team officials, Monroe is captured mid-kick as the soccer ball zooms towards the camera. A rare in-action shot of Monroe in one of her more sporty moments.
The crystal-clear black and white image was printed off the original negative from the famous Dodgers photographer's camera many years later. It has been professionally framed with a lovely white matting inside a thick wooden border (made of ash like most baseball bats). This exact framed photo was on display as part of the Barney Stein Photo Collection exhibit in 2001 at the Frick Art and Historical Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. (Certificate from this exhibit included on reverse side.)
DATE/YEAR: 5/12/1957
GENERATION: First (printed from original negative)
*Guaranteed to receive PSA/DNA Type II designation if removed from frame and authenticated.
PHOTOGRAPHER: Barney Stein
PHOTO DIMS: 11” x 14"
FRAMED DIMS: 17" x 20"
CONDITION: Mint
PROVENANCE: Family letter from Barney Stein's daughter Bonnie (Stein) Crosby
This same image is featured on pages 52-53 of Through a Blue Lens, a 2007 book by Bonnie Crosby and Dennis D'Agostino (forewords by Peter O'Malley and Carl Erskine) that chronicled Barney Stein's 1937-1957 Brooklyn Dodgers photography.
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