Lot 44
Lot 44
RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)

Suzy Parker, Evening dress by Dior, Paris studio, August, 1959

Price Realised USD 32,760
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USD 30,000 - USD 50,000
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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)

Suzy Parker, Evening dress by Dior, Paris studio, August, 1959

Price Realised USD 32,760
Price Realised USD 32,760
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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Suzy Parker, Evening dress by Dior, Paris studio, August, 1959
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on linen, printed 1981
signed and numbered '11/25' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit, title, date, and edition information (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush-mount: 40 x 3212 in. (101.6 x 82.5 cm.)
This work is number eleven from an edition of twenty-five.
Provenance
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002.
Literature
Harper's Bazaar, Octobre 1956.
Richard Avedon et Harold Brodkey, Avedon Photographs 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1978, pl. 128.
David Bailey et Martin Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, Faber & Faber, London, 1985, cat. no. 8.
Richard Avedon and Judith Thurman, Made in France, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2001, cover.
Anne Hollander and Mary Shanahan, Richard Avedon, Women in the Mirror, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, 2005, cover and p. 39.
Exhibition catalogue, Richard Avedon, Photographs, 1946-2004, The Richard Avedon Foundation, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2008, np.
Carol Squiers et. al., Avedon Fashion 1944-2000, Abrams, New York, 2009, p. 89.
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