We are honored to be your one-stop, 5-star source for vintage pin up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changing assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco; Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. All sell no reserve! This modernistic radical photograph combines an impressive shot of a nude model with a far-out space odyssey starscape to create a surreal image of a goddess come to life. Most well known for his sensual nude photography as well as for his portraiture of Marilyn Monroe, Andre de Dienes exquisitely combines the nude form with the tenderness of nature. The model is photographed sprawled out on what appears to be red rock, either climbing, or hanging on for dear life. It appears that she’s being absorbed by the space around her, or possibly she’s combining with space and she’s going to come back as a intergalactic space goddess. Either way, this is a very intriguing photograph that allows the viewer to have some interpretive license. This organic photograph utilizes combination printing, a technique developed to combine multiple negatives to create a singular image, this process allowed photography to move more into the fine art realm. A delightful mid-century artifact that comes with a COA certifying that this photograph was hand developed and stamped by the artist. Measures 10″ x 12 1/2″ borderless on glossy, double weight paper stock. Photographer’s ink stamps to verso. Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from GrapefruitMoonGallery. CONDITION: Original, large format, gelatin silver photograph in very fine condition. There is minor softening to the corners, as seen. Please reference the high quality scans within the listing for a more detailed view. Andre de Dienes (1913 1985) 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. 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. 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 Snivelys Blue Book Model Agency. Snively told Dienes of Norma Jean, and suggested her for his project of photographing artistic nudes. 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 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. 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. The item “Vintage Large Format Andre De Dienes Erotic Nude Photograph Cosmic Sprite 1950s” is in sale since Monday, April 18, 2016. This item is in the category “Art\Art from Dealers & Resellers\Photographs”. The seller is “grapefruitmoongallery” and is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This item can be shipped worldwide.

• Original/Reprint: Original Print
• Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
• Signed?: Unsigned
• Date of Creation: 1950-Now
• Photo Type: Gelatin Silver
• Subject: Nudes
• Color: Black & White
• Framing: Unframed
• Size Type/Largest Dimension: Large (Greater than 10in.)
• Artist: Andre de Dienes