Gelatin silver print.
35.7 x 56.1 cm (14 x 22 1/8 in.)
Signed, numbered 3/10 in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps on the reverse of the linen flush-mount.  

ProvenancePhillips de Pury & Company, New York, 19 October 2006, lot 243

LiteratureR. Avedon, An Autobiography, Random House, 1993, pl. 214
Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, pp. 56, 161
Richard Avedon: Portraits, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ Abrams, 2002, n.p.
Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007, pp. 124-125

NoteThe white background isolates the subject from itself and permits you to explore the geography of the face; the unexplored continents in the human face.’ Richard Avedon

Phillips. PHOTOGRAPHS LONDON AUCTION 3 NOVEMBER 2016