Lot 3
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RICHARD AVEDON | Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Los Angeles, California

Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Avedon
  • Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent, Los Angeles, California
  • Edition of 200
  • Gelatin silver print
  • 32 1/4  by 48 3/4  in. (81.9 by 123.8 cm.)
oversized, signed and editioned '66/200' in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1981, printed in 1982

Provenance

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2004

Literature

Illustrated in color: Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 162

Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), unpaginated

Condition

This print is in generally excellent condition. Under raking light, a few handling creases are visible. The lower and upper margins are very gently rippled. There is a small loss in the lower left margin corner and a few adjacent red deposits, possibly ink. On the reverse along the edges are tape and hinge remnants as well as several adjacent abrasions.
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