Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 9. Roger Tims, Jim Duncan, Leonard Markley, Don Belak, Coal Miners, Reliance, Wyoming, August 20, 1979.

Richard Avedon

Roger Tims, Jim Duncan, Leonard Markley, Don Belak, Coal Miners, Reliance, Wyoming, August 20, 1979

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

Roger Tims, Jim Duncan, Leonard Markley, Don Belak, Coal Miners, Reliance, Wyoming, August 20, 1979


a mural-sized triptych of gelatin silver prints, each mounted to aluminum, each signed and editioned '4/6' with a stylus in the black margins, and signed and editioned in ink, and with the photographer's 'In the American West' stamp, one with a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1979, printed in 1985

right and left panels: each 59¾ by 46¼ in. (151.8 by 117.5 cm.)

center panel: 59¾ by 45 in. (151.8 by 114.3 cm.)

overall: 59⅝ by 137⅜ in. (151.4 by 348.8 cm.)

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2008

About Face (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014), pp. 147 and 154-5 (this triptych)

Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), pp. 32-4 (this tripytch)

Richard Avedon, In the American West (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1985), unpaginated

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition, March – June 2010

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – April 2013

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022