RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)

Lot 26
28.03.2025 14:00UTC +08:00
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ID 1399810
Lot 26 | RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
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HKD 6 000 000 – 9 000 000
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on aluminium, printed 1979
signed and numbered '12/15', stamped title, date, photographer's reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
sheet: 152.4 x 121.9 cm. (60 x 48 in.)
This work is number twelve from an edition of fifteen.




Provenance

Hamiltons Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Harper’s Bazaar, New York, September 1955, p. 215.
Richard Avedon, Avedon: Photographs, 1947–1977, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1978, pl.159 and back cover.
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.
Exhibition Catalogue, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2009, p. 50.
Exhibition Catalogue, Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2018, pl. 11.
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