Lot 246 | Richard Avedon | Dovima with Elephants

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Auction results from: Richard Avedon
AVEDON, RICHARD
1923 New York - 2004 San Antonio, TX/USA

Title: Dovima with Elephants.
Subtitle: Evening dress by Dior. Cirque d'Hiver, Paris.
Date: 1955.
Technique: Later gelatin silver print on Agfa.
Depiction Size: 25,5 x 20cm.
Sheet Size: 35,6 x 27,2cm.
Notation: Signed, numbered, inscribed, copyright stamp of the photographer as well as typographical details about the edition verso.
Number: 42/100.
Frame: Framed.

Provenance:
- Hamiltons Gallery, London
- Sotheby's London, auction 12th November 2007, Lot 224
- The Anne Maria Jagdfeld Collection, Berlin

- The work marks the high point of Avedon's career
- Dovima combines theatricality and elegance, grace and instinct, making the photo an icon of photography
- Featured on the poster for Avedon's monumental exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978
- Voted one of the '100 Most Influential Images of All Time' by Time magazine in 2017

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Martina Janke
Modern, Post War & Contemporary Art
+49 221925862306

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Richard Avedon   USA   Photographs   Post-War Art   1950s   Framed   Animal   Photography   Gelatin silver print  

Stock Id: 82008-2053

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