RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)

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ID 1134129
Lot 42 | RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)

Dovima with Elephants, 1955

gelatin silver print, mounted on board

various annotations in red crayon and pencil (mount, recto); signed and dated in pencil, with various inscriptions in ink 'Richard Avedon made in France' stamps and typed Harper's Bazaar sheet (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection label and High Museum of Art label (frame backing board)

image/sheet: 7 ¾ x 9 ¾ in. (19.7 x 24.8 cm.)

mount: 12 1⁄8 x 14 7⁄8 in. (30.7 x 37.7 cm.)





Provenance

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta;

acquired from the above by the present owner, 1994.



Literature

Harper's Bazaar Magazine, September 1955, p. 214 

Philippe Garner et al., Avedon Fashion, Abrams, New York, 2009, p. 134.



Exhibited

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000– January 28, 2001.
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