ID 1134139
Lot 40 | HERB RITTS (1952–2002)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Versace, Veiled Dress, El Mirage, 1990
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed, titled, dated and numbered 'AP1' in pencil (mount, verso); credited, titled, dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)
image: 21 7⁄8 x 17 3⁄8 in. (55.5 x 41.1 cm.)
sheet: 24 x 19 7⁄8 in. ( 60.9 x 20 cm.)
mount: 25 ½ x 21 ¼ in. (64.7 x 54.1 cm.)
This work is artist's proof number one, aside from an edition of twenty-five.
Provenance
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Herb Ritts: Work, Little, Brown and Co.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996, n.p.
Exhibition catalogue, Herb Ritts, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, 1999, n.p.
Paul Martineau, Herb Ritts: L.A. Style, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, c. 2012, pl. 21, p. 51.
| Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
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