Hundreds of photographs of the Marylin Monroe and other celebrities, including her famous ones in bed and as a ballerina, were sold for some $750,000 Thursday evening at an auction house in Poland, NY Daily News reported.Bidders and spectators packed the Desa Unicum house in Warsaw, where 238 pictures by the late American fashion and celebrity photographer Milton H. Greene were up for sale. Only one remained unsold, among some 500 bidders.The auction house said in a statement that the 2.4 million zlotys obtained made it the nation’s biggest photo auction to date.Most of these pictures of Monroe were taken from 1953 to 1957 when Greene was her advisor and business partner. He made many of the prints during Monroe’s lifetime and they are highly valued by collectors. They include series of refined black-and-white studio photos and shots taken in natural surroundings, sometime in provocative poses, some in color.
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