Aug 03, 2023 - Sale 2643

Sale 2643 - Lot 370

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)

[THE BEATLES / STERN MAGAZINE]. Group of 4 posters and banner. 1967.


Posters are 27x19 inches, 68 1/2x48 1/4 cm. Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., [London].
Condition A. Paper.

In the late 1940s, Richard Avedon became the chief photographer for Harper's Bazaar. Throughout his career, while remaining active in the field of fashion photography, he also became involved in Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam war photography. For the January 9, 1967 issue of Look magazine, he produced solarized portraits of the Beatles that were issued in several formats (and for various international publications in the same year). Icons of their era, these images captured the legendary rock group at the peak of their fame. This set was printed for the German magazine Stern. With - black and white photographic banner. Images of an Era 48, Modern Poster 238, Encyclopedie de l'Affiche p. 329, Plakat Kunst p. 170, Design Graphique 102, MoMA 153.1988, 1441.2000, 1442.2000 & 1443.2000.