Vintage Psychedelic Beatles Posters (Set of 4 on Linen)

Year1967

Not Signed 

Condition Mint 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromPublisher 1998 

Provenance / HistoryEach poster is from the 1967 first edition published by Cowles Education Corporation/ Richard Avedon Posters, Inc., from Maximus Enterprises Ltd., printed by Waterlow and Sons, Ltd., England, copyrighted by Nems Enterprises, Ltd. Literature: Richard Avedon: Evidence 1944-1994, Whitney Museum of American Art/ Random House, 1994, p. 151, solarized portrait of John Lennon for the cover of Look magazine, Juanuary 9, 1968. 

Story / Additional InfoNot numbered, unknown edition size. Created by famed American photographer Richard Avedon in 1967. The set was commissioned for STERN magazine in Europe and LOOK magazine in the US. Each poster is in mint condition and is archivally mounted on linen. This is the rarer European edition which is slightly smaller than the American poster edition that was published by Look magazine in the US. 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

Additional InformationMotivated 

LID148826

Richard Avedon - United States

Art Brokerage: Richard Avedon American Artist: B. 1923-2004. Artist and Photographer Richard Avedon, born in New York on May 15, 1923 of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. He attended Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, but never completed an academic education. in 1940, at age 17, Avedon dropped out of high school and joined the Merchant Marine's Photographic Section, taking personnel identification photos. later, he went on several missions to photograph shipwrecks. Upon his return in 1944, Richard Avedon found a job as a photographer in a department store. Initially, Avedon made his living primarily through work in advertising. As a staff photographer for Harper's Bazaar and later for Vogue, Avedon became well known for his stylistically innovative fashion work, often set in vivid and surprising locales. Avedon also was the cover photographer for many magazines such as Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Listings wanted.