Harry Winston Necklace on Hoof, New York, 1963

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HIRO (B.1930)
Harry Winston Necklace on Hoof, New York, 1963
dye-transfer print, printed 1990
signed, dated and numbered '9/16' in pencil, photograher's ink thumbprint, copyright credit reproduction limitation and title stamps on verso
20 x 15½in. (51 x 39.4cm.)

Provenance

With Hamiltons Gallery, London.

Literature

Harper's Bazaar, December 1963, p.88; Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Company, 1979, p.165; Hiro, HIRO, Jonathan Cape, 1999, n.p.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The Harper's columnist remarks: 'Of an elegance compatible with the gold and onyx bull-heads of antiquity, we have another contemporary necklace, now of diamonds and rubies. Harry Winston, masterly in rendering the heroic, poetic--and the massive resilient--has been provided with the foreleg of a Black Angus bull as background for the necklace: a masssive twist, like a wisteria cluster widening as it droops. Entwined with diamonds, a double row of rubies emerges and crosse--rubies that become gigantic, then disappear before the necklace terminates with one tapered, exactly vertical diamond.' (Quoted in Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, p.165)

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