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RICHARD AVEDON | 'DOVIMA WITH ELEPHANTS, EVENING DRESS BY DIOR, CIRQUE D'HIVER', PARIS, 1955

Auction Closed

May 16, 01:31 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

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RICHARD AVEDON

1923 - 2004

'DOVIMA WITH ELEPHANTS, EVENING DRESS BY DIOR, CIRQUE D'HIVER', PARIS, 1955


Silver print, printed 1983. Signed and dated in pencil on the verso. Matted and framed.

Image 25 x 20 cm (9⅞x 7⅞in.);

sheet 30.2 x 24.2 cm (11⅞x 9½in.)


A gift from the Artist to the present owner.

Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, p. 53

Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 35

Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2005, p. 37

Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000, Harry N. Abrams,New York, 2009, p. 137

Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, George Eastman House, 1979, p. 137