Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

Richard Avedon

Robert Frank, Photographer, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, July 17, 1975

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

Robert Frank, Photographer, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, July 17, 1975

gelatin silver print, signed and editioned '32 of 50' in pencil, and stamped on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1975

image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)

frame: 17½ by 14½ in. (44.4 by 36.8 cm.)

The Richard Avedon Foundation

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008

Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), pl. 33

Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 157

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. 20

Philip Gefter, Photography After Frank (New York, 2009), p. 94

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022

Prints of this image are in both institutional and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection, New York.