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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed and numbered ‘11 / 100’ in pencil annotated in typeset with photographer's copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps (verso)
image: 10 x 778 in. (25.4 x 20 in. )
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm.)
This work is number eleven from an edition of 100.
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, April 5, 2019, lot 20;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Harper's Bazaar, September 1955.
Richard Avedon and Rosamond Bernier, Avedon Photographs, 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1978, pl. 159 and back cover.
Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Co., 1979, p. 137.
Marin Harrison and David Bailey, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Faber & Faber, London, 1986, cat. no. 7.
Martin Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography since 1945, Jonathan Cape, London, 1991, p. 73.
Richard Avedon, Evidence 1944-1994, Random House, New York, 1994, p. 53.
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