Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

Richard Avedon

'Sicily' (Italy #19, Boy and Tree, Noto)

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October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

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Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

'Sicily' (Italy #19, Boy and Tree, Noto)

gelatin silver print, signed with a stylus in the black margin, signed, titled, dated, editioned '9/13,' and inscribed 'For Ruedi 1.31.86' in pencil and with the photographer’s copyright and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1947, printed in 1962

image: 6 by 6 in. (15.2 by 15.2 cm.)

frame: 16¾ by 13¾ in. (42.5 by 34.9 cm.)

The photographer to Ruedi Hoffman, master printer, 1986

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008

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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