Live Auction 2252Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection
RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Lot 27 Avedon's camera refuses to confer distinction. It meets each individual head-on; [his subjects are] allowed only such graces as may come through the vacant stare of the lens.
Harold Rosenberg

RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)

Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, 1957

Closed17 December 2008

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Marilyn Monroe, actress, New York City, 1957
gelatin silver print, printed 1980
signed, numbered '4/25' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps (on the verso)
13 x 10 5/8in. (32.9 x 26.9cm.)

Sotheby's, New York, October 5, 1995, lot 454A.