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 changed assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. All sell no reserve! This mid-century photograph provides a visual journey through a shift in perception, as photographs where the subject is under water, tend to do. A subtle play of light and shadow gives the water an almost anthropomorphic quality and delightfully twirls around the models as they sway and bend erotically in the water. Andre de Dienes, an artist who is well known for his sensual nude photography as well as for his portraiture of Marilyn Monroe, shows us here just how stunning the combination of nudes in a natural landscape can be. These models reminds us of modern mermaids as the details of their bodies are absorbed and transformed in the water. A strange and delightful mid-century artifact that comes with a COA certifying that this photograph was hand developed and stamped by the artist. Just a remarkable photography treasure! Measures 10 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ borderless on a glossy double weight paper stock. Photographer’s ink stamps to verso. Guaranteed to be 100% vintage and original from GrapefruitMoonGallery. CONDITION: Very fine condition. 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 “Large Format Andre de Dienes Vintage Erotic Nude Modern Mermaids Photograph Rare” is in sale since Sunday, May 22, 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.

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