Richard Avedon American, 1923-2004
Marilyn Monroe, New York City, May 6th, 1957
Gelatin silver print
image:
57.5 x 51 cm
22 5/8 x 20 1/8 in
paper:
61 x 51 cm
24 x 20 1/8 in
57.5 x 51 cm
22 5/8 x 20 1/8 in
paper:
61 x 51 cm
24 x 20 1/8 in
Signed and editioned '8/35' in pencil in the margin, signed in ink and stamped on the reverse, 1957, printed in 1970
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A plate from the Minneapolis Portfolio (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970, an edition of 35), signed and editioned '8/35' in pencil in the margin, signed in ink and stamped on...
A plate from the Minneapolis Portfolio (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1970, an edition of 35), signed and editioned '8/35' in pencil in the margin, signed in ink and stamped on the reverse, 1957, printed in 1970
(The photographer's title stamp erroneously dates this image to 1962.)'For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s — she did Marilyn Monroe. And then there was the inevitable drop. And when the night was over and the white wine was over and the dancing was over, she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I saw her sitting quietly without expression on her face, and I walked towards her but I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no' (Richard Avedon Portraits, 2002, unpaginated).
Literature
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/marilyn-monroe-portrait-richard-avedon/Publications
Richard Avedon, John Lahr et al., Performance, Abrams, cop, New York, 2008, p. 103;Anne Hollander, Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror, Abrams, New York, 2005, ill. p. 88;
Michael Juul Holm, ed., Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946 - 2004, Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, ill. p. 60;
Richard Avedon Portraits, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2002, ill. n.p.;
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1994, ill. p. 138;
Richard Avedon, An Autobiography, Random House, New York, 1993, ill. pl. 134;
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1989, p. 374;
Paris-New York-Tokyo, Tsukuba Museum of Photography, Tsubaka, 1985, pl. 22;
The Making of a Collection: Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1984, p. 94;
Richard Avedon, Portraits, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1976;
Richard Avedon, James Baldwin, Nothing Personal, Atheneum, New York, 1964;
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