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Richard Avedon

ARTIST - MAURIZIO CATTELAN

Richard Avedon, Maurizio Cattelan, 2004

Maurizio Cattelan (1960, -) is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures.

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Richard Avedon, William S. Burroughs, 1975

"Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary." (William S. Burroughs)

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Richard Avedon, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1976

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

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Richard Avedon, Samuel Beckett, 1974

"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." (Samuel Beckett)

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Richard Avedon, Jorge Luis Borges, 1975

"Reality is not always probable, or likely." (Jorge Luis Borges)

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Richard Avedon, Aldous Huxley, 1956

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." (Aldous Huxley)

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Richard Avedon, Ezra Pound, 1958

"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." (Ezra Pound)

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Richard Avedon, Truman Capote, 1955

"All literature is gossip." (Truman Capote)

ARTIST - RICHARD AVEDON

Richard Avedon, Self Portrait, New-York, 1963

Richard Avedon (1923 – 2004) was an American photographer. His fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century.

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Richard Avedon, "Dovima with the Elephants", 1955.

Richard Avedon's "Dovima with the Elephants" sold for $1,148,910 at Christie's Paris.

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Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe, 1958.

65 spectacular prints of the one of the greatest masters of photography, Richard Avedon weere sold in the largest auction of works by Avedon, who died in 2004. The auction was aimed to raise money for the Richard Avedon Foundation.