94. Richard Avedon
1923-2004
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August, 1955 Gelatin silver print, printed later. 25.6 x 20.1 cm (10 1⁄8 x 7 7⁄8 in.) Signed, numbered in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps on the verso. One from an edition of 100. Estimate £30,000-40,000 $45,500-60,600 €40,500-54,000 Provenance Private Collection, Europe
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Literature Harper’s Bazaar, September 1955, p. 215 Richard Avedon, Photographs, 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978, back cover and pl. 159 N. Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine, 1979, p. 137 D. Bailey, M. Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. no. 7 M. Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945, Rizzoli, 1991, p. 73 Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, Whitney Museum of American Art/ Random House, 1994, p. 53 Richard Avedon: Made in France, Fraenkel Gallery, 2001, n.p. Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror, Abrams, 2005, p. 37 Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, n.p. Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000, ICP/ Abrams, 2009, p. 137
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