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Herb Ritts
Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage
- Estimate
- $100,000 - 150,000
$112,500
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print.
1990
53 7/8 x 42 7/8 in. (137 x 108.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 6/12 in pencil on a label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 12 plus 3 artist's proofs.
The edition of 12 plus 3 artist’s proofs was not fully realized.
The edition of 12 plus 3 artist’s proofs was not fully realized.
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Catalogue Essay
“I like large planes and spaces, areas of texture and light, like deserts or oceans or monumental places."
Herb Ritts
Iconic fashion photographer Herb Ritts created the breathtakingly dramatic Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage, 1990 for a Versace campaign featuring supermodel Christy Turlington. Fanned by a divine halo of black silk, Ritts captures Turlington statuesquely posed on the El Mirage Dry Lakebed, an arid landscape whose flat plane could easily be the edge of the world. Ritt’s stunning image marries the earthly elemental and exacting abstraction —conjuring wind, light, and earth, while pushing high contrast and flattening sumptuous forms, revealing beauty’s mirage on the empty desert plane.
Herb Ritts
Iconic fashion photographer Herb Ritts created the breathtakingly dramatic Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage, 1990 for a Versace campaign featuring supermodel Christy Turlington. Fanned by a divine halo of black silk, Ritts captures Turlington statuesquely posed on the El Mirage Dry Lakebed, an arid landscape whose flat plane could easily be the edge of the world. Ritt’s stunning image marries the earthly elemental and exacting abstraction —conjuring wind, light, and earth, while pushing high contrast and flattening sumptuous forms, revealing beauty’s mirage on the empty desert plane.
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