‘It was not so much about hair and much more about creation of a fantasy.’ Angelica Houston from the forward to Ara Gallant
27. Richard Avedon
1923-2004
Sophia Loren, Hair by Ara Gallant, New York studio, October, 1970 Gelatin silver print, printed 1981, fush-mounted to linen. 44 x 59.6 cm (17 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.) Signed and numbered 37/50 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 ‘Pale Fire, Dark Flame: Catherine Deneuve and Sophia Loren’, Vogue US, December 1970 p. 122, variant crop Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1978, pl.121 Richard Avedon: Performance, New York: Abrams, 2008, pp. 70-71
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