Richard Avedon
June Leaf, Sculptress, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, July 18, 1975
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May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
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7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Richard Avedon
1923 - 2004
June Leaf, Sculptress, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, July 18, 1975
gelatin silver print, signed, annotated negative number '156,' and number '3' in an edition of '50' in ink and with the photographer's title, date, edition, and copyright stamps on the reverse, in a Lucite frame designed by Marvin Israel, 1975
image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)
frame: 18 by 16½ in. (45.7 by 41.9 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2007
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), pl. 216
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York, 1994), p. 65
Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), back cover
Richard Avedon, Woman in the Mirror (New York, 2005), p. 166
Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon – Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 21
'June is one of the most beautiful women I've ever photographed, maybe, in part, because she's not a professional beauty. She makes me feel I'm just learning to photograph women.'
Carol Lawson, "Richard Avedon- An Artist Despite His Success?," The New York Times, 7 September 1975, p. 105
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