Richard Avedon - Pace/MacGill Gallery

Richard Avedon: PERFORMANCE
November 14, 2008 – January 3, 2009
1. Richard Avedon photographing Dovima
and Diana Vreeland, July 22, 1955
gelatin silver print
image, 19 9/16 x 15 11/16 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
2. Zazi, street performer, Piazza
Navona, Rome, 1946
gelatin silver print
image and paper, 17 3/4 x 18 inches
from an edition of 10 (in this format)
print made 1993
3. Zazi, street performer, Piazza
Navona, Rome, 1946
gelatin silver print
image and paper, 17 15/16 x 17 3/16 inches
from an edition of 8
print made 1993
4. Zazi, street performer, Piazza
Navona, Rome, 1946
gelatin silver print
image and paper, 18 x 17 3/4 inches
from an edition of 10
print made 1993
5. Audrey Hepburn, actor, in "Funny
Face,” Paris, 1956
gelatin silver print
image, 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 inches
paper, 14 x 11 inches
6. Killer Joe Piro, dance teacher,
New York, January 3, 1962
vintage gelatin silver print
image, 6 1/16 x 6 1/16 inches
paper, 14 x 11 inches
from an edition of 14 (in this format)
print made 1962

7. Merce Cunningham, choreographer,
New York, February 17, 1993
gelatin silver print
image, 22 15/16 x 18 5/16 inches
paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 5
print made 2003
8. Rudolf Nureyev, New York, May 6, 1963
gelatin silver print
image, 17 3/8 x 13 7/8 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
from an edition of 13
print made 2003
9. Rudolf Nureyev, New York, May 31, 1967
gelatin silver print mounted on linen
image and paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 50 (in this format)
print made 1980
10. Anna Magnani, actor, New York, 1953
gelatin silver print
image, 14 3/16 x 14 5/16 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
11. Michelangelo Antonioni, director, and
his wife, Enrica, Rome, May 18, 1993
vintage gelatin silver print
image, 22 15/16 x 18 1/4 inches
paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 14
print made 1993
12. Andy Warhol and Members of the Factory,
New York City, October 30, 1969
three gelatin silver prints
each image, 8 x 10 inches
overall, 8 x 30 inches
from an edition of 50 (in this format)
prints made 1975
13. Groucho Marx, Actor, Beverly Hills,
California, April 9, 1972
vintage gelatin silver print
image and paper, 16 3/16 x 15 5/8 inches
from an edition of 50
print made 1975
14. Brigitte Bardot, actor, Paris, 1959
vintage gelatin silver print
image, 23 3/16 x 20 inches
paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 35
print made 1959

15. John Huston, film director,
New York, January 1956
vintage gelatin silver print
image, 5 15/16 x 6 inches
paper, 14 x 11 inches
from an edition of 13
print made 1956-60
16. Alfred Hitchcock, film director,
New York, March 16, 1956
vintage gelatin silver print
mounted to board
image, 19 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches
paper, 19 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches
print made 1959
17. Bert Lahr in Beckett's "Waiting for
Godot," New York, May 15, 1956
gelatin silver print
image, 19 9/16 x 15 5/8 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
from an edition of 8
print made 1962
18. Viva, actor, New York, October 2, 1969
gelatin silver print
image, 22 7/16 x 18 1/8 inches
paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 25
print made 1997
19. Tilda Swinton as Orlando, London, 1993
gelatin silver print
image, 12 1/8 x 12 3/16 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
20. Suzy Parker and Mike Nichols, coat
by Yves Saint Laurent, The American
Hospital, Paris, August 1962
gelatin silver print
image, 13 15/16 x 19 3/8 inches
paper, 16 x 20 inches
from an edition of 12
print made 1991
21. Monty Python, comedians, New York,
April 25, 1975
gelatin silver print
image, 13 9/16 x 17 3/16 inches
paper, 16 x 20 inches
22. Truman Capote
gelatin silver contact prints taped
to paper with grease pencil
overall, 12 1/3 x 8 inches

23. Truman Capote, writer, New York,
October 10, 1955
gelatin silver print
image, 11 15/16 x 11 7/8 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
from an edition of 20
print made 1999
24. Charlie Chaplin, New York,
September 13, 1952
vintage gelatin silver print
mounted to linen
image and paper, 41 1/8 x 65 5/8 inches
mount, 41 1/8 x 65 5/8 inches
from an edition of 12
print made 1953-55
25. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel,
singers, New York, 1967
gelatin silver print
image, 18 5/8 x 18 13/16 inches
paper, 24 x 20 inches
26. The Everly Brothers, singers,
Las Vegas, January 17, 1961
vintage gelatin silver print
mounted to masonite
image and paper, 49 7/8 x 39 15/16 inches
mount, 49 7/8 x 39 15/16 inches
unique
print made 1961
27. Janis Joplin, Port Arthur, Texas,
August 28, 1969
gelatin silver print
image, 18 1/8 x 14 7/16 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
from an edition of 25
print made 1999
28. Bette Midler, singer, New York, 1971
gelatin silver print
image, 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches
paper, 14 x 11 inches
29. The Beatles Portfolio: John Lennon,
Ringo Starr, George Harrison and
Paul McCartney, musicians, London,
August 11, 1967
four gelatin silver prints
each toned in selenium
each image, 23 3/16 x 19 5/16 inches
each paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 12 with 3 APs
prints made 1990

30. The Beatles Portfolio: John Lennon,
Ringo Starr, George Harrison and
Paul McCartney, musicians, London,
August 11, 1967
four dye transfer prints
each paper approx., 26 x 21 1/2 inches
portfolio case, 28 3/4 x 24 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches
from an edition of 6 with 3 APs
prints made 1990
31. Joan Baez, New York, June 18, 1965
gelatin silver print
image, 12 13/16 x 12 3/4 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
printed later
32. Bob Dylan, singer, New York,
February 10, 1965
vintage gelatin silver print
image, 19 9/16 x 15 3/4 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
from an edition of 13 (in this format)
print made 1965
33. Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York,
May 6, 1957
gelatin silver print mounted on linen
image and paper, 40 x 30 11/16 inches
mount, 40 x 30 11/16 inches
from an edition of 10 with 2 APs
(in this format)
print made 1980
34. Oscar Levant, pianist, Beverly
Hills, April 12, 1972
vintage gelatin silver print
image and paper, 16 7/16 x 15 11/16 inches
from an edition of 50 (in this format)
print made 1974
35. Marian Anderson, contralto,
New York, June 30, 1955
vintage gelatin silver
print mounted to board
image, 14 11/16 x 19 9/16 inches
paper and mount, 16 x 20 inches
from an edition of 8
print made 1955-60
36. Louis Armstrong, musician, Newport
Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island,
May 3, 1955
vintage gelatin silver print
image, 19 11/16 x 16 inches
paper, 20 x 16 inches
from an edition of 8
print made 1955-60

37. Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, New Milford,
Connecticut, August 9, 1975
vintage gelatin silver print
paper, 10 x 8 inches
from an edition of 50 (in this format)
print made 1975
38. Igor Stravinsky, composer,
New York, November 2, 1969
gelatin silver print mounted on linen
image and paper, 24 1/16 x 70 3/4 inches
from an edition of 10 (in this format)
print made 1975
39. The Minneapolis Portfolio, published 1970
a portfolio containing eleven gelatin silver
prints, a colophon and a cover
page, produced in conjunction with
Richard Avedon’s retrospective exhibition
at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
July 1 - August 30, 1970
each paper, 24 x 20 inches
from an edition of 35
prints made 1960s
Buster Keaton, comedian, New York, 1952
Isak Dinesen, writer, Copenhagen,
Denmark, April 9, 1958
René Clair, director, New York City,
July 6, 1958
Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York,
May 6, 1957
Charlie Chaplin, New York,
September 13, 1952
Dwight David Eisenhower, President
of the United States, Palm Springs,
California, January 31, 1964
Jimmy Durante, comedian, New York, 1956
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
Waldorf-Astoria, suite 28A, New York,
April 16, 1957
Marianne Moore, poet, New York, 1958
Ezra Pound, poet, at the home of William
Carlos Williams, Rutherford, New Jersey,
June 30, 1958
Humphrey Bogart, actor, New York, 1953