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Record-breaking Avedon
24November
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Record-breaking Avedon

A couple of days ago, a piece by Richard Avedon (1923-2004) was sold under the gavel at the Christie’s Auction House for 841,000 euros, eventually becoming the most expensive photograph ever sold to date. Dovima with Elephants, including in a lot of 65 artworks exclusively devoted to Avedon, started off with an initial bid somewhere between 400,000 and 600,000 euros.

 

This could be a sign of the art market’s rebound if we bear in mind that this particular auction raked in far more than what the organizers had estimated (from 3 to 5 million euros). The final tab peaked 5.5 million euros.

 

These Avedon pieces were sent to Christie’s by the Richard Avedon Foundation in an effort to raise funds aimed at further spreading the artist’s work and fostering photography. For its part, the auction house called this lot “a development teeming with one-and-only, unusual pieces.”

 

Other pictures that reached high biddings were a montage of four psychedelic portraits of The Beatles made in 1967 that went off for 445,000 euros; model Stephanie Seymour’s sassy image (265,000 euros) and a shot of Suzy Parker and Robin Tattersall dancing at the Concordia Plaza in Paris (217,000 euros), among other works.

 

Source: AFP