Apr 19, 2018 - Sale 2474

Sale 2474 - Lot 323

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
RICHARD AVEDON.
A box set including Evidence 1944-1994 and An Autobiography, produced to accompany the 1994 Whitney Museum retrospective of the photographer's works.
The first illustrated with 284 photographs documenting Avedon's noteworthy career spanning half a century; the second including essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik, and illustrated lavishly with over 600 important representative images of this titan's photographic oeuvre. Folios, red- and blue-stamped linen-covered boards; enclosed in a matching clamshell box with the debossed title. SPECIAL EDITION, THE BOX WITH AVEDON'S SIGNATURE AND THE EDITION NOTATION 248/250, IN INK, AND ISSUED WITH 2 IMAGES.
Eastman Kodak/Random House, New York, 1994

WITH--Jasper Johns * Jean Shrimpton. Offset lithographs, the images measuring 13 3/4x10 1/2 inches (34.9x26.7 cm.), each with a Whitney Special Edition Engraver's Proof hand stamp, on verso, and each housed in a paper folder with the title and negative date printed in the front flap; one with Avedon's inscription and the date 1995. 1965-70; printed 1993

Additional Details

Acquired directly from the photographer, 1995.