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| Image | Last Sale Date | Title | Edition No. | Last Sale | Last Sale Auction House | Last Sale Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 2022 | Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955 | 19 | Sotheby's | New York | |||
photographs
58.4 x 46.4 cm (23 x 18.25 in)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to linen
signed and editioned '19/50' in ink and the photographer's copyright, title, and edition stamps on the reverse
Acquired from the photographer, 1980
Private collection
Harper's Bazaar , September 1955, p. 215
Avedon Photographs: 1947-1977 (New York, 1978), pl. 159 and back cover
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), p. 53
Richard Avedon: Made in France (San Francisco, 2002), unpaginated
Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror (New York, 2005), p. 37
Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 35
Carol Squiers, Vince Aletti, et al. , Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000: The Definitive Collection (New York: The International Center of Photography, 2009), p. 137 and 172-3 (variants)
Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography (Rochester: George Eastman House, 1979), p. 137
Helen Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective (Tucson, 1984), p. 84
David Bailey and Martin Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Portraits Chosen by David Bailey (London, 1986), cat. no. 7
Martin Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945 (New York, 1991). p. 73
Anthony T. Mazzola, ed., 125 Great Moments of Harper's Bazaar: A Commemorative Collection of Outstanding Photographs (New York, 1993), cover and pl. 3
Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photographs from Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection (New York, 1999), pl. 368
Ingrid Sischy et al., Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2000), p. 189
Harold Koda, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009), p. 50
20th Century Photography (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 2012), p. 29
Quentin Bajac et al ., eds., Photography at MoMA: 1920 - 1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), pls. 274 and 276
Paul Martineau, Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018), pl. 111
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
'Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955'
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to linen, signed and editioned '19/50' in ink and the photographer's copyright, title, and edition stamps on the reverse, framed, 1955, printed in 1980; accompanied by the original typed invoice and receipt, on the photographer's 407 East 75th Street studio letterhead, dated 11 April 1980 and 11 September 1980 (3)
image: 23 by 18 ¼ in. (58.4 by 46.4 cm.)
frame: 31¼ by 26 ½ in. (79.4 by 67.3 cm.)
