Photography/Faces and Places Auction | December 3, 2024
Tue, Dec 3, 2024 10:00AM EST
Lot 11
Richard Avedon
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
(American, 1923-2004)
Sicily, Italy, #19, Boy in Tree, Noto, 1947, printed later, signed with stylus in black margin lower right "Avedon", also stamped signed in pencil verso, inscribed "saintz", (?) 17-14-47 and editioned 5/13, gelatin silver print, image 6 x 6 in., sheet 14 x 11 in.
Provenance: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California, a facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot; Private Collection, Wisconsin
Literature: Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 72-3; Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), unpaginated; Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), pp. 18, 30, and 71; Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), frontispiece and unpaginated; Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 11; Jeff L. Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020), p. 50
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G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California, a facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot;
Private Collection, Wisconsin
slight surface crimp lower left and upper left in white margin, very slight surface crimp in image left edge center
