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THBRichard Avedon
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PO Box 2135
Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveDec 3, 2024
Faces and Places. Our December 3 Photography auction includes 73 lots by important masters Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Peter Henry Emerson, and Alfred Eisenstaedt, among many others. Beginning with pictorialist works by Emerson and Frederick Henry Evans, the images progress through twentieth century masters Lartigue, D'Oisneau, Orkin, Abbott, Karsh, Erwitt, Siskind, Bill and Nick Brandt, Brett Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and others; to more recent works by Jan Saudek, Joan Myers, and Wolf von dem Bussche. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
(American, 1923-2004)
Sicily, Italy, #19, Boy in Tree, Noto, 1947, printed later, signed with stylus in black margin lower right "Avedon", also stamped signed in pencil verso, inscribed "saintz", (?) 17-14-47 and editioned 5/13, gelatin silver print, image 6 x 6 in., sheet 14 x 11 in.
Provenance: G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California, a facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot; Private Collection, Wisconsin
Literature: Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, Observations (New York, 1959), pp. 72-3; Richard Avedon, An Autobiography (New York, 1993), unpaginated; Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994 (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994), pp. 18, 30, and 71; Richard Avedon Portraits (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), frontispiece and unpaginated; Michael Juul Holm, Richard Avedon- Photographs 1946-2004 (Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007), p. 11; Jeff L. Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020), p. 50
- Provenance
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California, a facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot;
Private Collection, Wisconsin
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- Condition
slight surface crimp lower left and upper left in white margin, very slight surface crimp in image left edge center
