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‘...a swan is invariably the result of adherence to some aesthetic system of thought, acode transposed into a self-portrait. This is why certain women, while not truly beautiful,can occasionally provide the swan illusion: their inner vision of themselves is so fixed,decorated with such clever outer artifice, that we surrender to their claim...classicspecimen...Mme. Agnelli [is] the European swan numero uno.’ Truman CapoteRichard Avedon’s photograph of Marella Agnelli, taken in 1953, stands as one of the iconic fashion photographs of our time. It was selected by Avedon as the cover image for the book Avedon – Photographs 1947-1977 that accompanied his first retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In observing the most stylish women of his time, Truman Capote named Avedon's favourite "swans"; those who adhered "to some aesthetic system of thought, a code transposed into a self-portrait, and Mme. Agnelli is the European swan numero uno."This print of Marella Agnelli is the earliest print of the image to be offered for sale, preceding the later limited edition by over twenty years. Printed before 1960, the print was gifted to Harris Radin who assisted Avedon in his studio and travelled to Paris with him to help cover Harper's Bazaar's fall collections in 1959 and 1960. The present lot is accompanied by a copy of the letter from the Avedon Foundation which acknowledges Mr. Radin’s title to the print, along with sixteen others gifted to him by Avedon in 1960.
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Marella Agnelli, New York, December 1953
细节
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Marella Agnelli, New York, December 1953
gelatin silver print
image: 12 7/8 x 9 ¾ in. (32.7 x 24.6 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 1/8 in. (35.5 x 28.3 cm.)
Marella Agnelli, New York, December 1953
gelatin silver print
image: 12 7/8 x 9 ¾ in. (32.7 x 24.6 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 1/8 in. (35.5 x 28.3 cm.)
来源
The Artist.
Gifted to Haris Radin in 1960.
Private Collection.
Gifted to Haris Radin in 1960.
Private Collection.
出版
Richard Avedon & Truman Capote, Observations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1959, p. 27.
Richard Avedon and Harold Brodkey, Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1978, cover and pl. 161.
Vince Aletti, Philippe Garner & Carol Squires, Avedon: Fashion 1944-2000, Abrams, New York, 2009, p. 131.
Richard Avedon and Harold Brodkey, Avedon: Photographs 1947-1977, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1978, cover and pl. 161.
Vince Aletti, Philippe Garner & Carol Squires, Avedon: Fashion 1944-2000, Abrams, New York, 2009, p. 131.
荣誉呈献
Olivia Taylor