Collection of Georges Bermann

Richard Avedon

Blue Cloud Wright, slaughterhouse worker, Omaha, Nebraska, August 10, 1979

Gelatin silver print, printed 1985.
Image/Sheet: 143.2 x 114.6 cm (56 3/8 x 45 1/8 in.)
Frame: 156.1 x 124.4 cm (61 1/2 x 48 7/8 in.)
Signed and numbered 6/6 in stylus in the margin; signed, numbered 6/6 in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminium mount.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 

Sold for £161,000

By presenting the subject in isolation against a white backdrop, Avedon transforms a slaughterhouse worker from Omaha, Nebraska into a symbolic figure. Of his white backgrounds, he explains, ‘I think we live in a kind of a void; that there is nothing before and there is nothing after. And the white for me represents that void. It makes people symbolic of themselves. You see only what’s written on their faces

hmm..as a co-hotdesker just put it to me 'fucks sake, I cant be doing with void chat'