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RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
- Twiggy, Hair by Ara Gallant, Paris Studio, January 1968

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Twiggy, Hair by Ara Gallant, Paris Studio, January 1968
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $34,600
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $15,000 - $20,000

Sale Information

Sale 2113
Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering
10 April 2008
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Twiggy, Hair by Ara Gallant, Paris Studio, January 1968
gelatin silver print, mounted on linen, printed 1981
signed, numbered '21/50' in ink, copyright credit, reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
23 3/8 x 18 5/8in. (59.5 x 47.3cm.)

Pre-Lot Text

Avedon...created the statement that he wished to make -- of movement caught forever by his lens.
CECIL BEATON

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist

Literature

Avedon and Brodkey, Avedon Photographs, 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978, pl. 127;
Avedon, Evidence, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, p. 150;
Avedon and Arbus, The Sixties, Random House, 1999, pp. 2-3, coloured version;
Beaton and Buckland, The Magic Image, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, pp. 252-253.

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