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    • RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
    Lot 85

    RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)

    John Ford, director, Bel Air, California, 4-11-72

    Price realised

    EUR 15,000

    Estimate

    EUR 8,000 - EUR 10,000

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    RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
    John Ford, director, Bel Air, California, 4-11-72
    tirage argentique, tiré en 1975
    signé, numéroté '10/50' et 'neg. no. 90' à l'encre, cachets de copyright du photographe, de titre, date et édition (au verso)
    image 39 x 38.2 cm. (15 3/8 x 15 in.)
    feuille 41 x 40.2 cm. (16 1/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
    Ce tirage est le numéro 10 d'une édition de 50 exemplaires.

    Provenance

    Marlborough Gallery, New York
    acquis par le propriétaire actuel auprès de celle-ci en 1977

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    Richard Avedon, Portraits, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976, n.p.; Richard Avedon, An Autobiography, Random House, 1993, pl.186; Livingston & Gopnik, Evidence, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, p.155


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    Post Lot Text

    GELATIN SILVER PRINT, PRINTED 1975; SIGNED, NUMBERED '10/50' AND 'NEG. NO. 90' IN INK, PHOTOGRAPHER'S COPYRIGHT, TITLE, DATE AND EDITION STAMPS ON THE VERSO.


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