In 1965, Richard Avedon brought his talent for capturing fuid movement from the pages of Harper’s Bazaar to Vogue. There, he encountered Ara Gallant, one of the frst hairstylists hired by Vogue for photo assignments, and the two forged a creative collaboration that earned them the nickname ‘Aradon’. While Avedon’s models leaped and jumped across the set, Gallant energised their hair to ensure the same intensity was present in every strand. Twiggy, Hair by Ara Gallant, Paris studio, January, 1968 (lot 26), marks the debut of Gallant’s ‘fying hair trick’ as captured in Avedon’s photographs. As Twiggy fips her head up towards the ceiling, her locks fow as though fying of their own accord. Two years later, the collaborative duo revisited this technique for Vogue US with Sophia Loren (lot 27). In this photograph, appearing at auction for the frst time, Loren with closed eyes sensually shakes her head from side to side, her hair gracefully flling the entire frame. This illusion remained synonymous with Gallant and no one ever photographed it like Avedon did.
26. Richard Avedon
1923-2004
Twiggy, Hair by Ara Gallant, Paris studio, January, 1968 Gelatin silver print, printed 1981, fush-mounted to linen. 40 x 59.7 cm (15 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.) Signed and numbered 50/50 in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps on the reverse of the fush-mount. Estimate £30,000-50,000 $36,500-60,900 €34,200-56,900 Provenance Gagosian Gallery, Rome Literature Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, pl. 127 Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944-1994, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, p. 150 R. Avedon, D. Arbus, The Sixties, London: Random House, 1999, pp. 2-3, colour variant Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror, New York: Abrams, 2005, p. 130 D. Willis, Ara Gallant, Bologna: Damiani, 2010, pp. 10-11 Avedon: Murals & Portraits, New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2012, p. 16 M. Juul Holm, Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004, Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014, n.p.
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