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Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
Details
Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
signed and numbered 'Avedon 34/50' and stamped with title, date and photographer's copyright credit (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print flush-mounted on linen
image: 18 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (47.6 x 39.4 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 15 7/8 in. (50.8 x 40.3 cm.)
Printed in 1980. This work is number thirty-four from an edition of fifty.
Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, May 6, 1957
signed and numbered 'Avedon 34/50' and stamped with title, date and photographer's copyright credit (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print flush-mounted on linen
image: 18 3/4 x 15 1/2 in. (47.6 x 39.4 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 15 7/8 in. (50.8 x 40.3 cm.)
Printed in 1980. This work is number thirty-four from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
R. Avedon and J. Baldwin, Nothing Personal, New York, 1964, n.p. (illustrated).
R. Avedon, An Autobiography, New York, 1993, pl. 134 (illustrated).
R. Avedon, M. M. Hambourg, and M. Fineman, Richard Avedon Portraits, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002, n.p (illustrated).
R. Avedon, Woman in the Mirror, New York, 2005, pp. 88-89 (illustrated).
R. Avedon and N. Stevens, Performance: Richard Avedon, New York, 2008, p. 103 (illustrated).
R. Avedon, An Autobiography, New York, 1993, pl. 134 (illustrated).
R. Avedon, M. M. Hambourg, and M. Fineman, Richard Avedon Portraits, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002, n.p (illustrated).
R. Avedon, Woman in the Mirror, New York, 2005, pp. 88-89 (illustrated).
R. Avedon and N. Stevens, Performance: Richard Avedon, New York, 2008, p. 103 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, March-June 1994, p.138 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Milan, Forma: International Centre for Photography; Paris, Jeu de Paume; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; Amsterdam, Foam_Fotografiemusuem Amsterdam; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Richard Avedon, Photographs 1946 – 2004, August 2007 – October 2009, p. 60 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Milan, Forma: International Centre for Photography; Paris, Jeu de Paume; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; Amsterdam, Foam_Fotografiemusuem Amsterdam; San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Richard Avedon, Photographs 1946 – 2004, August 2007 – October 2009, p. 60 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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