Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Richard Avedon
'Dick Hickock, Murderer, and Walter Hickock, Father, Garden City, Kansas'
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
'Dick Hickock, Murderer, and Walter Hickock, Father, Garden City, Kansas'
2 gelatin silver prints, each signed and editioned '3/4' in pencil, and with the photographer's title, date, edition, and copyright stamps on the reverse, each framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1960, printed in 1993
Dick Hickock, Murderer:
image: 17 by 14½ in. (43.2 by 37 cm.)
frame: 25⅞ by 23⅞ in. (65.6 by 60.5 cm.)
Walter Hickock, Father:
image: 16⅜ by 15¼ in. (41.6 by 38.9 cm.)
frame: 25⅞ by 23⅞ in. (65.6 by 60.5 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 142
Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), unpaginated
Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Art, 2007), p. 64-5
Richard Avedon first photographed Truman Capote in 1955 (see Lot 10), spawning a decades-long friendship between artist and writer. In 1959, the two collaborated on Observations, a book of Avedon’s photographs with an introductory text and running narrative by Capote. As part of his research for In Cold Blood, a sensational novel detailing the true crime story of the Clutter family murders, Capote invited Avedon in 1960 to photograph people related to the case in Garden City, Kansas. The resulting portraits of Richard “Dick” Hickock, accused in the murders, and his father Walter are emblematic of the best of Avedon’s portraits.
Prints of these images are in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.