Sale 2106
New York
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14 October 2008
Price realised
USD 62,500
Estimate
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004) Santa Monica Beach, California 9-30-63, 1963 gelatin silver print, printed 1964 signed, dated, numbered '4/5' in pencil, title, date, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso) 19½ x 14 5/8in. (49.5 x 37cm.)
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Literature
Avedon, An Autobiography, Random House, 1993, pl. 59; Avedon, Evidence 1944-1994, Random House The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, p. 146; Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 67
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