LEIF-ERIK NYGÅRDS. Marilyn Monroe. Color photography. Fine art pigment print. Signed Leif-Erik Nygårds. AP.

Photographed in Los Angeles at the Bel Air Hotel on June 27, 1962. Later print. Leif-Erik Nygårds is one of Sweden's most famous portrait photographers abroad. As a young man, he moved to New York and was an assistant to Irving Penn. Most famous is probably Leif-Erik for taking the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe, only two months before her death in 1962, of which this motif is one of the most famous. Image size 35 x 52.5 cm.