Richard Avedon Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris. August 1955 Gelatin silver print, printed before 1964 Laid down on original cardboard (49 × 36,2 cm), thereupon on the reverse photographer's stamp: „PHOTOGRAPH BY RICHARD AVEDON" as well as inscribed in red crayon and pencil 19 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. Harper’s Bazaar, September 1955, p. 215 / Famous Photographers School (ed.): Famous Photographers Course. Vol. 1, Lesson 1. Westport, 1964, p. 10 / Exh. cat.: Avedon - Photographs 1947-1977. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, back title / Martin Harrison: Appearances. Fashion Photography since 1945. Munich and Paris 1991, p. 73 / Anthony T. Mazzola: 125 Great Moments of Harper's Bazaar. A commemorative collection of outstanding photographs, illustrations, and texts that have appeared in Harper's Bazaar. In Celebration of the Magazine's 125th Annivesary. New York 1993, pl.3 / Exh. cat.: Richard Avedon. Evidence, 1944-1994. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, et al., 1994, p. 53 / Richard Avedon: Woman in the Mirror. New York, 2005, p. 37 / Exh. cat.: Richard Avedon - Photographs 1946-2004. Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Mailand, Forma - International Centre for Photography; Paris, Jeu de Paume; Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; Amsterdam, Foam - Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam; San Francisco. Museum of Modern Art 2007/09, n.p. / Exh. cat.: Avedon Fashion, 1944-2000. New York, International Center for Photography, 2009, p. 137 / Exh. cat.: Richard Avedon. Wandbilder und Porträts. Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Museum Brandhorst, 2014, p. 14 / Exh. cat.: The Model as Muse. Embodying Fashion. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009, p. 50 / Exh. cat.: Icons of Style. A Century of Fashion Photography. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2018, p. 183, pl. 111 Richard Avedon to „Famous Photographers School Collection", Westport