Marilyn Monroe 1926–2026: Las fotografías perdidas

The 27 Club at The Palace hotel in Madrid brings together fifteen restored photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken by the photographer Allan Grant, which had never been seen in the capital before.

The exhibition in the 27 Club at The Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, brings back into view the work of American photographer Allan Grant on Marilyn Monroe. The show is curated by Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz Fisac, an independent art critic and writer. It brings together fifteen images restored from the archives of Chris Flannery and Jasob Grenne, belonging to the session prepared for the interview that Richard Meryman conducted for LIFE magazine shortly before the actress's death.

The display focuses on two moments in her career. On the one hand, the sessions that Milton H. Greene held with her, which reveal a more personal side. Among them are the two images that preceded the works « A Ballerina » and « The Hooker Sitting ». From a much larger set of photographs, the display presents only a selection of fifteen, lost for decades and later recovered.

The visit is completed with the original copy of LIFE magazine, the screening of an unreleased, restored recording of that conversation, in which the actress's voice can be heard, and a screenprint based on James Francis Gill's triptych. It is a proposal designed for those who follow the figure of Monroe and the photography of the period.