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Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Lot 28
06.12.2023 14:00UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1105530
Lot 28 | Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Estimate value
€ 250 000 – 350 000
Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955

tirage argentique, tiré en 1979, monté sur lin

signé et numéroté '15⁄50' au crayon avec cachet de copyright du photographe portant le titre, la date (image) et les informations de l'édition (montage, verso)

image/feuille/montage: 130.5 x 104.5 cm.

Réalisée en 1979, cette œuvre porte le numéro quinze d'une édition de cinquante exemplaires.



gelatin silver print, printed 1979, flush-mounted on linen

signed and numbered '15⁄50' in pencil with stamped photographer's copyright credit with title, date (image), reproduction limitation and edition information (flush mount, verso)

image/sheet/flush mount: 51 3⁄8 x 41 1⁄8 in.

Executed in 1979, this work is number fifteen from an edition of fifty.





Provenance

Richard Avedon

Acquis directement auprès de l'artiste

Collection Egoïste, France

Collection privée, France



Literature

Harper’s Bazaar, New York, septembre 1955, p. 215.

Richard Avedon, Avedon Photographs 1947-1977, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 1978, pl. 159 et dos de couverture.

Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Company, Inc., New York, 1979, p. 137.

Shots of Style Great Fashion Photographs chosen by David Bailey, catalogue d’exposition, Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres, 1985, pl. 7.

Martin Harrison, Appearances Fashion Photography since 1945, Jonathan Cape, Londres, 1991, p. 73.

Richard Avedon, Evidence 1944-1994, Random House, New York, 1994, p. 53.

Richard Avedon, Made in France, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2001, pl. 26.

Anne Hollander, Woman in the Mirror, Richard Avedon, The Richard Avedon Foundation, Abrams, New York, 2005, p. 37.

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, catalogue d’exposition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 50.

Avedon: Women, catalogue d’exposition, The Richard Avedon Foundation, Gagosian, Shapco Printing, Minneapolis, 2013, pl. 144.

Icons of Style A Century of Fashion Photography, catalogue d’exposition, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2018, pl. 111.
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