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Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
Details
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
gelatin silver print
credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 15 x 10 7/8in. (38.7 x 28cm.)
mount: 15¾ x 11 3/8in. (40.5 x 29.4cm.)
Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
gelatin silver print
credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 15 x 10 7/8in. (38.7 x 28cm.)
mount: 15¾ x 11 3/8in. (40.5 x 29.4cm.)
Provenance
With Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, acquired 2005
Literature
Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978, pl. 159 and cover; Livingston and Gopnik, Evidence, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, p. 53; Avedon and Thurman, Made in France, Fraenkel Gallery, 2001, pl. 26; Avedon Fashion 1944-2000, Harry N. Abrams, 2009, p. 137
Sale Room Notice
Subsequent to the printing of the catalogue for this sale, Christie's has been made aware of the existence of potentially earlier prints of this image, notably the original engraver's print used for reproduction in Harper's Bazaar, and another early print now in the collection of the Smithsonian.
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