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Dec 3, 2024
(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
G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, California, a facsimile of original receipt accompanies the lot;
Private Collection, Wisconsin
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