RICHARD AVEDON | MARILYN MONROE
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April 5, 08:29 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
Lot Details
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RICHARD AVEDON
1923-2004
MARILYN MONROE
a plate from the Minneapolis Portfolio (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970, an edition of 35), signed and editioned '8/35' in pencil in the margin, signed in ink and stamped on the reverse, 1957, printed in 1970
22⅝ by 20⅛ in. (57.5 by 51.1 cm.)
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Los Angeles, 1980
By descent to the present owner
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), pl. 134
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), p. 138
Richard Avedon, Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), unpaginated
Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror (New York, 2005), pp. 88-9
Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 - 2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 60
Richard Avedon, Performance (New York, 2008), p. 103
'For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s — she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no' (Richard Avedon Portraits, 2002, unpaginated).