Artist Richard Avedon, American, 1923 - 2004
Title
  • Suzy Parker: Musique de Nuit
  • Suzy Parker: Evening Dress by Dior, Paris Studio, August 1956 (alternate title)
Date 1956, printed 1981
Medium gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 23 1/2 × 19 5/8 inches (59.7 × 49.8 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)
Credit Line Museum Purchase with funds from the Founders Junior Council
Accession Number 2002.118
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed in black pen and ink, center, verso: Avedon
Marks Stamp, in black ink, lower center, verso: this image exists in editions of twenty-five, 40 x 32" and fifty, 24 x 20" | No further prints will be made from this negative with the exception | of a limited number made solely in connection with museum exhibitions. | This print was made in 1981. | this photograph may not be reproduced without the written permission | of Richard Avedon | Copyright c.1956 Richard Avedon | All rights reserved | Suzy Parker | Evening dress by Dior | Paris studio | August 1956
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil, lower left edge, verso: SW#25246 RAV 0424Y
In black pen and ink, center, verso: 11/50
Staley Wise Gallery (New York, New York, USA);
2002-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)