Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

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Property from an Esteemed Collector

Richard Avedon

Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City

VAT reduced rate

Live auction begins on:

June 24, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004


Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City

signed and numbered 1/10 in ink and with the photographer's title, copyright, and printing information stamps (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to linen

101 by 78 cm. 39¾ by 30⅝ in.

Executed in 1957, printed in 1980, this print is number 1 from an edition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Private Collection, France (acquired from the photographer, circa 1980)

Christie's Paris, 5 November 2019, lot 22

Hamiltons Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2020 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, 1989, p. 94, illustrated

Richard Avedon, An Autobiography, New York 1993, pl. 134, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, March - June 1994 p. 138, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richard Avedon: Portraits, September 2002 - January 2003, n.p., illustrated

Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror, New York 2005, pp. 88-9, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 - 2004, 2007, p. 60, illustrated

Richard Avedon, Performance, New York 2008, p. 103, illustrated