PROPERTY OF A NEW JERSEY COLLECTOR 'The importance of Avedon's work is that it constitutes a coherent and challenging composite portrait of many of the mythic figures and spear-carriers of the worlds of art, style and higher salesmanship.' (John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, Museum of Modern Art New York Graphic Society, 1976, p.168)

RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)

SELECTED IMAGES, 1975

細節

RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Selected images, 1975
8 gelatin silver prints
each signed, 7 numbered '26/50', one '27/50' in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps (on the verso)
each approximately 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.) (8)

來源

From the artist;
to Sol Mindlin;
by bequest to the present owner

拍品專文

In the early 1970s, Sol Mindlin, a New Jersey businessman, was on vacation in Florida, where he met Richard Avedon, who was also vacationing in the same place at the same time. They struck up a friendship that would last several years, and would result in the formation of Mindlin's collection of works by Avedon that Christie's is delighted to offer here.
The following five lots (196-200) were acquired by Mindlin in a short period of time in the late 1970s, and extensive correspondence from Avedon to Mindlin reveals not only the casual, corroborative nature of their friendship, but also Avedon's keen interest that Mindlin acquire only important works that made sense together as a coherent whole. The photographs were all shipped to Mindlin's summer house in New Jersey at the time of purchase and/or framing, where they have remained since - unchanged and as if frozen in time.