COWARD, Noël - AVEDON, Richard.

£9,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Portrait photograph signed by Avedon, and inscribed by Coward to the musician Jack Daugherty. Inscribed by Coward, "For Jack Daugherty, With Best Wishes, Noël Coward"; additionally signed and dated by Avedon with his studio wet stamp verso. Richard Avedon's "fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century " (New York Times, obituary).A pleasing inscription to American musician and producer Jack Daugherty (1930-1991), a trumpeter in Woody Herman's band, probably best known for his later role in the development of the career of The Carpenters. Of Coward, Avedon said: "Deep down - to the marrow of his bones - he was shallow, but surface never got more perfect than that".

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