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Richard Avedon

‘Renée, The New Look of Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris’, August 1947

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April 10, 04:06 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

‘Renée, The New Look of Dior, Place de la Concorde, Paris’, August 1947


a plate from Avedon/Paris (New York: Self-published, 1978, an edition of 75), gelatin silver print, signed and editioned '31/75' in pencil and with the portfolio and title stamps on the reverse, framed

image: 18 by 14⅜ in. (45.7 by 36.5 cm.)

frame: 26½ by 23 in. (67.3 by 58.4 cm.)

Executed in 1947, printed in 1978.

Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), unpaginated

Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 129

Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror (New York: 2005), p. 61

Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), unpaginated

Avedon Fashion 1944-2000: The Definitive Collection (New York: 2009), pp. 2-3 and 44