Live Auction 2113Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Lot 47 Mme. Agnelli [is] the European swan numero uno.
TRUMAN CAPOTE

RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)

Marella Agnelli, New York Studio, December 1953

Closed10 April 2008

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Marella Agnelli, New York Studio, December 1953
gelatin silver print, mounted on linen, printed 1981
signed, numbered '35/50' in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
23 3/8 x 18 5/8in. (59.5 x 47.3cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist

Specialist note

'...a swan is invariably the result of adherence to some aesthetic system of thought, a code transposed into a self-portrait. This is why certain women, while not truly beautiful, can occasionally provide the swan illusion: their inner vision of themselves is so fixed, decorated with such clever outer artifice, that we surrender to their claim...classic specimen...Mme. Agnelli [is] the European swan numero uno.' Truman Capote (Observations, p. 29)