NEW YORK (AP) – A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly $150,000.

A spokeswoman for Christie’s auction house says the 36 photos taken by Bert Stern sold for $146,500 on Tuesday. The presale estimate was $100,000 to $150,000.

Christie’s says the photos from a 1962 shoot were the last professional images taken of Monroe before she died that year of a drug overdose. They ran in Vogue instead, as a memorial.

They’re among more than 100 Monroe images that were offered fin a two-day sale at Christie’s. 

Also in Christie’s Tuesday session, four Helmut Newton photographs, titled They’re Coming, Paris (Naked and Dressed), sold for $662,500.

The buyers were anonymous.

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