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 12. The Beatles, London, England, August 11, 1967 (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison).

Richard Avedon

The Beatles, London, England, August 11, 1967 (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison)

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

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Richard Avedon

1923 - 2004

The Beatles, London, England, August 11, 1967 (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, and George Harrison)


a suite of 4 gelatin silver prints, each signed, editioned '6/12,' and annotated with the negative number in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, 1967, printed in 1990

each image: 23¼ by 19¼ in. (59.1 by 48.9 cm.)

each frame: 29½ by 25½ in. (74.9 by 64.8 cm.)

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2006
'Art Beat of the 60s: The Beatles,' Look, 9 January 1968, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 32-41

Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944–1994 (New York, 1994), p. 150 

Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, Avedon: The Sixties (London, 1999), p. 153

Chorus of Light: Photographs From The Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2001), p. 24

Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 91

Richard Avedon Performance (New York, 2008), pp. 151-4

Avedon Warhol (London: Gagosian Gallery, 2016), p. 197

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