Richard Avedon
Minneapolis Portfolio
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
Minneapolis Portfolio
(Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970, an edition of 35), a portfolio of 11 gelatin silver prints, each signed and editioned '7/35' in pencil in the margin, signed in ink and stamped on the reverse, 4 framed, 1952-64, printed in 1970; together with the silver-gilt credit page and colophon/plate list. Atlas folio, acrylic box
each image approximately: 22⅜ by 20 in. (57 by 50.7 cm.) or 17¾ by 24 in. (45 by 61 cm.)
each frame: 31 by 28 in. (78.6 by 71 cm.)
portfolio box: 24¾ by 20¾ in. (62.8 by 52.7 cm.)
Collection of Sol Mindlin, 1970s
Private collection, by bequest
Christie’s, New York, 24 April 2007, Sale 1825, Lot 198
Marilyn Monroe:
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
Charlie Chaplin:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 8-9
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 14 and 134
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 56
Buster Keaton:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 122-3
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 20 and 134
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 55
Jimmy Durante:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 126-7
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 21, 47
Humphrey Bogart:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), p. 121
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 20
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 36-7
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 17 and 138
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 53
Rene Clair:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 13
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 15
Isak Dinessen:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 140-1
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 22 and 139
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 70
Marianne Moore:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 131
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 22 and 138
Ezra Pound:
Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 135
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 22, pp. 46-7, and 139
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 83
Marilyn Monroe:
Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 178 (this print)
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 60
Dwight David Eisenhower:
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 147
Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 76