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'Avedon is a director of pictures. All his occasions are performances; all his subjects, actors; all his images, scenes. A virtuoso theatricality unites his work.' (Adam Gopnik, 'The Light Writer', Evidence: Richard Avedon, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, p. 106)
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
DOVIMA WITH ELEPHANTS, EVENING DRESS BY DIOR, CIRQUE D'HIVER, PARIS, 1955
Details
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, numbered '5/50' in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps (on the verso)
40 x 50in. (101 x 127cm.)
Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, numbered '5/50' in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps (on the verso)
40 x 50in. (101 x 127cm.)
Provenance
from the artist;
to Sol Mindlin;
by bequest to the present owner
to Sol Mindlin;
by bequest to the present owner
Literature
Harper's Bazaar, September 1955; Avedon and Brodkey, Avedon Photographs, 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978, pl. 159 and back cover; Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Co., 1979, p. 137; Harrison and Bailey, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. no. 7; Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography since 1945, Jonathan Cape, 1991, p. 73; Avedon, Evidence, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, p. 53