RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)

Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory, October 30, 1969

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory, October 30, 1969
triptych of gelatin silver prints, flush-mounted together on linen
signed by both Avedon and Warhol in ink, stamped photographer's copyright credit with negative numbers '48', '21', and '68' and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
each image/sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)
overall: 8 x 30 in. (20.4 x 76 cm.)
This work is number fourteen from an edition of fifty.

Provenance

Marlborough Gallery, New York;
The Collection of Andy Warhol;
with Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
The Collection of Rex, Inc.;
their sale, Christie's, New York, October 17, 2007, lot 120;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Richard Avedon and Harold Rosenberg, Portraits, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976, n.p.
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography, Random House, New York, 1993, no. 131, n.p.
Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, Evidence: 1944-1994, Random House, New York, 1994, pp. 74-75 and 151.
Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, Avedon: The Sixties, Random House, New York, 1999, pp. 78-83.

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Lot Essay

A list of subjects include, from left to right:
Paul Morrissey, Director; Joe Dallesandro, actor; Candy Darling, actor; Eric Emerson, actor; Jay Johnson, actor; Tom Hempertz, actor; Gerard Malanga, poet; Viva, actress; Paul Morrissey; Taylor Mead, actor; Brigid Polk, actress; Joe Dallesandro; Andy Warhol, artist

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