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

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923–2004)
Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory, New York, October 30, 1969
triptych of gelatin silver prints, flush-mounted together on linen
signed and stamped photographer's copyright credit with negative numbers '48', '21', and '68' and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered '44/50' 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 forty-four from an edition of fifty.

Provenance

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004.

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.

Another print of this image resides in the collections of the Tate in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

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