Richard Avedon

Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

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Property from an Important Private Collection, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to linen, signed and editioned '7/50' in ink and with the photographer's title, copyright, and printing information stamps on the reverse, framed, a Minneapolis Institute of Art label on the reverse

image: 18¾ by 15⅝ in. (47.6 by 39.7 cm.)

frame: 29¾ by 26½ in. (75.6 by 76.3 cm.)

Executed in 1957, printed in 1980.

Christopher Cardozo, Inc., Minneapolis

Acquired from the above in 1995 by the present owner

Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), pl. 134

Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), p. 138

Richard Avedon, Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), unpaginated

Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror (New York, 2005), pp. 88-9

Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 - 2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 60

Richard Avedon, Performance (New York, 2008), p. 103

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Photography: The Collection Grows, 1983 - 1996, May - August 1997