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"Beauty can be isolating." -- Richard Avedon
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Brigitte Bardot, Hair by Alexandre, Paris Studio, Paris, France, January 1959
Details
Richard Avedon (1923-2004)
Brigitte Bardot, Hair by Alexandre, Paris Studio, Paris, France, January 1959
signed and numbered '24/35 Avedon' (lower edge in the margin)
gelatin silver print
image: 23 x 20 in. (58.4 x 50.8 cm.)
sheet: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1959. This work is number 24 from an edition of 35.
Brigitte Bardot, Hair by Alexandre, Paris Studio, Paris, France, January 1959
signed and numbered '24/35 Avedon' (lower edge in the margin)
gelatin silver print
image: 23 x 20 in. (58.4 x 50.8 cm.)
sheet: 24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Executed in 1959. This work is number 24 from an edition of 35.
Provenance
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
R. Avedon, Harper's Bazaar, March 1959, Eyes on Paris and America, n.p. (illustrated).
R. Avedon and T. Capote, Observations, New York, 1959, n.p. (illustrated).
R. Avedon and A. Hollander, Woman in the Mirror: Richard Avedon, New York, 2005, pp. 112-113 (illustrated).
J. Lahr et al., Performance: Richard Avedon, New York, 2008, pp. 64-65 (illustrated).
C. Squiers and V. Aletti, Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000, New York, 2009, pp. 86-87 (illustrated).
R. Avedon and T. Capote, Observations, New York, 1959, n.p. (illustrated).
R. Avedon and A. Hollander, Woman in the Mirror: Richard Avedon, New York, 2005, pp. 112-113 (illustrated).
J. Lahr et al., Performance: Richard Avedon, New York, 2008, pp. 64-65 (illustrated).
C. Squiers and V. Aletti, Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000, New York, 2009, pp. 86-87 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Humblebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Milan, Fondazione Forma; Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, August 2007, October 2009 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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