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Richard Avedon

Photographs
18.05.2017
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100.000 £ - 150.000 £
ca. 129.246 $ - 193.869 $
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87.500 £
ca. 113.090 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 29

Richard Avedon

Photographs
18.05.2017
Schätzpreis
100.000 £ - 150.000 £
ca. 129.246 $ - 193.869 $
Zuschlagspreis:
87.500 £
ca. 113.090 $
Beschreibung:

Richard Avedon Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955 Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1964, flush-mounted. 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) ‘Photograph by Richard Avedon’ stamp and variously annotated in crayon on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist The Famous Photographers School The FPS Archives Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York To the present owner Literature Harper’s Bazaar, September 1955, p. 215 Famous Photographers Course Lesson 1-8, Westport: Famous Photographers School, 1964, p. 10 Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, back cover and pl. 159 N. Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, New York: Abrams, 1979, p. 137 D. Bailey and M. Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, London: V&A, 1985, cat. no. 7 Richard Avedon Evidence, 1944-1994, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, p. 53 Richard Avedon Made in France, San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001, n.p. Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror, New York: Abrams, 2005, p. 37 M. Juul Holm, Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004, Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, n.p. Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000, New York: International Center for Photography, 2009, p. 137, p. 37 Variant crops Catalogue Essay The Famous Photographers School (FPS) was founded in 1961 in Westport, Connecticut, following the success of the Famous Artists School, whose Co-Founder Albert Dorne recruited Victor Keppler a noted commercial photographer, to develop the programme. Keppler frst hired Alfred Eisenstaedt followed by Richard Avedon Philippe Halsman Bert Stern and Irving Penn who together with Arthur d’Arazien, Richard Beattie, Joseph Costa, Ezra Stoller and Harry Garfeld made this correspondence school the foremost institution in the United States for teaching photography. Between the ten of them, these highly esteemed photographers commanded a variety of skills that exposed their students to such topics as editorial, still-life compositions, political portraits, fashion imagery, celebrity photography and darkroom manipulation. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. took an interest in the School, putting on a series of solo exhibitions for the ten faculty photographers, starting with Richard Avedon in 1962. For this – his first major museum retrospective – the curators tacked many of the prints directly to the gallery wall, juxtaposing his portraiture against his fashion work, which included a print of Dovima with Elephants, 1955. In February 1964, the FPS ran an advertisement in LIFE magazine that stated, ‘Now – no matter where you live – you can “apprentice” yourself to the most successful photographers of our time.’ It continued, ‘Ten of the world’s greatest photographers have joined together to create a professional-level course in photography to help you develop your skill, judgment, and craftsmanship … and to pass on to you their secrets for achieving success and recognition.’ A total of 24 lessons were assembled in four hardbound volumes and sold as subscriptions. The FPS presented Avedon as the ‘world’s highest paid fashion photographer’ and showcased Dovima with Elephants as his signature fashion image. In ‘Lesson One’, on page 10, a full-page reproduction of the work was accompanied by Alfred Eisenstaedt’s fulsome description of Avedon and this photograph: The purpose of this picture – an illustration for a fashion magazine – was to make people stop and look at the gown the model is wearing. Richard Avedon achieved his goal with characteristic wit and imagination. Like many of Avedon’s photographs, this one began with a visual idea: to pose a beautiful model wearing the gown in front of a grotesque background of circus elephants. This startling combination of beauty and the beasts would have the attention getting effect he wanted. Of course, the fantastic situation, appropriate for the high-fashion publication he was shooting for, was not intended to be taken literally. In the hands of a less skilled photographer, the same idea might have turned out as merely a gag shot. But Avedon added the element of his own highly creative personal seeing. He saw the elephants not just as huge, ungainly beasts

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 29
Auktion:
Datum:
18.05.2017
Auktionshaus:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

Richard Avedon Dovima with Elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955 Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1964, flush-mounted. 48.9 x 36.2 cm (19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in.) ‘Photograph by Richard Avedon’ stamp and variously annotated in crayon on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Acquired directly from the artist The Famous Photographers School The FPS Archives Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York To the present owner Literature Harper’s Bazaar, September 1955, p. 215 Famous Photographers Course Lesson 1-8, Westport: Famous Photographers School, 1964, p. 10 Avedon: Photographs, 1947-1977, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, back cover and pl. 159 N. Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, New York: Abrams, 1979, p. 137 D. Bailey and M. Harrison, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, London: V&A, 1985, cat. no. 7 Richard Avedon Evidence, 1944-1994, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, p. 53 Richard Avedon Made in France, San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001, n.p. Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror, New York: Abrams, 2005, p. 37 M. Juul Holm, Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004, Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, n.p. Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000, New York: International Center for Photography, 2009, p. 137, p. 37 Variant crops Catalogue Essay The Famous Photographers School (FPS) was founded in 1961 in Westport, Connecticut, following the success of the Famous Artists School, whose Co-Founder Albert Dorne recruited Victor Keppler a noted commercial photographer, to develop the programme. Keppler frst hired Alfred Eisenstaedt followed by Richard Avedon Philippe Halsman Bert Stern and Irving Penn who together with Arthur d’Arazien, Richard Beattie, Joseph Costa, Ezra Stoller and Harry Garfeld made this correspondence school the foremost institution in the United States for teaching photography. Between the ten of them, these highly esteemed photographers commanded a variety of skills that exposed their students to such topics as editorial, still-life compositions, political portraits, fashion imagery, celebrity photography and darkroom manipulation. The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. took an interest in the School, putting on a series of solo exhibitions for the ten faculty photographers, starting with Richard Avedon in 1962. For this – his first major museum retrospective – the curators tacked many of the prints directly to the gallery wall, juxtaposing his portraiture against his fashion work, which included a print of Dovima with Elephants, 1955. In February 1964, the FPS ran an advertisement in LIFE magazine that stated, ‘Now – no matter where you live – you can “apprentice” yourself to the most successful photographers of our time.’ It continued, ‘Ten of the world’s greatest photographers have joined together to create a professional-level course in photography to help you develop your skill, judgment, and craftsmanship … and to pass on to you their secrets for achieving success and recognition.’ A total of 24 lessons were assembled in four hardbound volumes and sold as subscriptions. The FPS presented Avedon as the ‘world’s highest paid fashion photographer’ and showcased Dovima with Elephants as his signature fashion image. In ‘Lesson One’, on page 10, a full-page reproduction of the work was accompanied by Alfred Eisenstaedt’s fulsome description of Avedon and this photograph: The purpose of this picture – an illustration for a fashion magazine – was to make people stop and look at the gown the model is wearing. Richard Avedon achieved his goal with characteristic wit and imagination. Like many of Avedon’s photographs, this one began with a visual idea: to pose a beautiful model wearing the gown in front of a grotesque background of circus elephants. This startling combination of beauty and the beasts would have the attention getting effect he wanted. Of course, the fantastic situation, appropriate for the high-fashion publication he was shooting for, was not intended to be taken literally. In the hands of a less skilled photographer, the same idea might have turned out as merely a gag shot. But Avedon added the element of his own highly creative personal seeing. He saw the elephants not just as huge, ungainly beasts

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Datum:
18.05.2017
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