Richard Avedon
Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
signed, dated 1957-60 and annotated unique print in this size and with the photographer’s title and copyright stamps on the reverse
gelatin silver print
7 ⅜ by 7 ⅛ in.
18.7 by 18.1 cm
Collection of The Richard Avedon Foundation, New York;
Christie’s Paris, 20 November 2010, Avedon: Photographies provenant de la Fondation Richard Avedon, lot 37;
Where acquired by the present collector
S. Greenough, et al., in On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D. C. 1989, p. 94;
R. Avedon, An Autobiography, New York 1993, pl. 134;
M. Shanahan, ed., in Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, exhibition catalogue, New York 1994, p. 138;
M. Morris Hambourg and M. Fineman, Richard Avedon: Portraits, exhibition catalogue, New York 2002;
M. Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 - 2004, exhibition catalogue, Humlebæk 2007, p. 60;
R. Avedon, Woman in the Mirror, New York 2005, pp. 88-9;
R. Avedon, Performance, New York 2008, p. 103
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