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
Richard Avedon
'William Casby, Algiers, Louisiana, Born in Slavery, 3.24.63'
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
'William Casby, Algiers, Louisiana, Born in Slavery, 3.24.63'
gelatin silver print, signed in the margin with a stylus, signed, titled, dated, editioned '6/11,' and negative number '39' annotated in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp on the reverse, framed, 1963
image: 6⅜ by 6⅛ in. (16.2 by 15.6 cm.)
frame: 16 by 14½ in. (40.6 by 36.8 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin, Nothing Personal (New York, 1964), unpaginated
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), p. 83
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 146
Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, The Sixties (New York, 1999), p. 125
Richard Avedon and James Baldwin, Nothing Personal (Köln, 2017 re-print of the 1964 original), unpaginated