A photograph that Grant hand-printed and signed in pencil in the early 1980s from one of his original 1962 negatives; glossy finish, weight-and-a-half paper, depicting the star with an expressive look on her face as she sits in her 5th Helena Drive home, verso with a photographer's signature in pencil and stamp reading "LIFE PHOTO BY ALLAN GRANT"
 
Taken on July 7, 1962, less than one month before her death, Grant's photographs of Marilyn Monroe are now in the realm of legend. In a strange twist of fate, they were published for the first time in the August 3, 1962 issue of LIFE Magazine, just two days before her passing.  Grant shot twelve rolls of black and white film that day in July, though only eight images were seen in LIFE.  In the years that followed, he created a limited number of prints for licensing and private sale, leaving much of his Monroe archive untouched and unseen by the public.