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Lot 563
HIRO [=Yasuhiro Wakabayashi] A Portfolio of Portraits.
[New York: self-published, 1978]. One of 15 sets produced, the images individually numbered and signed on the verso. Original cream cloth clamshell portfolio case, the entire contents in a heavy paper chemise, the photographs individually housed in sleeves with the image title (and edition number in pencil). 24 x 20 inches (61 x 51 cm); 2 ff. introductory matter (title, plate list) photographically printed, and eleven linen-backed gelatin silver prints, the versos stamped with the copyright information and the title, signed in pencil with Hiro's thumbprint, and numbered 15 from the edition of 15. Minute soiling, but fine, with a presentation letter from Hiro laid-in.
A magnificent work of portraiture, and one of the utmost rarity at auction. We find no records. The eleven subjects include Robert Penn Warren, Leontyne Price, Isaac Stern, Walter Cronkite, Muhammed Ali, Masters & Johnson, Hans Selye, Louise Nevelson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Robert Gottlieb and I.F. Stone.
Norma Stevens represented Richard Avedon for thirty years, and her husband Martin (d. 2016) was an art and creative director for Revlon and other agencies.
Provenance:
Gift of the Artist
C Collection of Norma and Martin Stevens
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