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

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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 19. Suzy Parker, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris Studio, Paris France, August 1956.

Richard Avedon

Suzy Parker, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris Studio, Paris France, August 1956

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

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Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

Suzy Parker, Evening Dress by Dior, Paris Studio, Paris France, August 1956


mural-sized gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to linen, signed and editioned '13/25' in ink and with stamped title, date, edition, and copyright on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1956, printed in 1981

image: 40 by 32½ in. (101.6 by 82.6 cm.)

frame: 42½ by 35 in. (109 by 89.5 cm.)

The Richard Avedon Foundation

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008

Harper's Bazaar, October 1956

Avedon: Photographs, 1947–1977 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), p. 128

David Bailey and Martin Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs (London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985), cat. no. 8.

Richard Avedon: Made in France (San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2002), cover

Anne Hollander, Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror (New York, 2005), cover and p. 39