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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Truman Capote, New York City, October 10, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed 1999
signed and numbered '1/20' in pencil, stamped with title, date and copyright credit (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 1178 x 1178 in. (30.1 x 30.1 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
This work is number one from an edition of twenty.
Provenance
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003.
Literature
The New Yorker, October, 1997, p. 69.
John Lahr et al., Richard Avedon: Performance, Abrams, New York, 2008, p. 54.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 320.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
Portland, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, The Unseen Eye, September 6–30, 2012.
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