ID 1134216
Lot 168 | RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
Sunny Harnett, Evening dress by Grès, Casino, Le Touquet, August 1954
gelatin silver print, printed 1978
signed, numbered '28⁄75' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation, portfolio, edition, title and date stamps (verso); credited, titled, dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label and High Museum of Art label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 18 x 14 ¼ in. (45.7 x 36.2 cm.)
This work is part of the Early Fashion Portfolio numbered twenty-eight from an edition of seventy-five.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Richard Avedon and Rosamond Bernier, Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977, The Museum, 1978, pl. 44.
Ned Rifkin, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, High Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publication, Atlanta, 2000, p. 191.
Richard Avedon, Richard Avedon Photographs, 1946-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art DAP, Humlebaek, c2007, p. 45.
Anne Hollander, Woman in the Mirror, H. N. Abrams, New York. 2005, p. 50.
Philippe Garner et al., Avedon Fashion, Abrams, New York, 2009, p. 123.
Exhibited
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000– January 28, 2001.
| Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
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| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Applied technique: | Gelatin silver print |
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| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
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