Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Richard Avedon
William Burroughs, writer, New York, July 9, 1975
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October 7, 03:12 PM GMT
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20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
William Burroughs, writer, New York, July 9, 1975
gelatin silver print, signed Avedon, editioned '8' of '10' and annotated negative no. '11' in pencil and with the photographer’s copyright and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1975
image: 40 ¾ by 31 ¾in. (103.5 by 80.6 cm.)
frame: 44 ⅛ by 35 ⅜ in. (112.1 by 89.9 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2010
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography, New York, 1993, pl. 217
Maria Morris Hambourg and Mia Fineman, Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), unpaginated
Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 - 2004, Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 218