Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
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RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, numbered '11/50' in ink, title, date, edition and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 49½ x 40in. (125.8 x 101.6cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 51 x 41 3/4in. (130 x 106cm.)
Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, 1955
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, numbered '11/50' in ink, title, date, edition and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 49½ x 40in. (125.8 x 101.6cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 51 x 41 3/4in. (130 x 106cm.)
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
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