Bud Fraker

Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956

Found at Christies, London (Online Auction)
Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection, Lot 361
19.Sep - 04.Okt.2017
Estimate: 1.000 - 1.500 GBP
Price realised: 8.750 GBP
gelatin silver print
stamped photographer's Paramount studio credit (verso)
image/sheet: 13 ⅜ x 10 ¼ in. (34 x 26 cm.)
Mutual admiration drew Hepburn and Astaire to take part in Funny Face. The producers secured their two leading actors by telling each star that they had already signed the other. According to Mel Ferrer, although Audrey usually took three days to read and consider a script, she finished Funny Face in two hours, crying This is it! I don't sing well enough, but, oh, if I can only do this with Fred Astaire! Likewise Fred was eager to work with Audrey, telling a reporter This could be the last and o
Years later, at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award tribute to Astaire, Hepburn spoke of her first meeting with the Hollywood star: One look at this most debonair, elegant and distinguished of legends and I could feel myself turn to solid lead, whike my heart sank into my two left feet. Then suddenly I felt a hand around my waist and, with inimitable grace and lightness, Fred literally swept me off my feet. I experienced the thrill that all women at some point in their lives have dreamed of - to
Hepburn played a studious Greenwich Village bookseller, whisked off to Paris by fashion photographer Astaire and transformed into a high fashion model. In a frothy romantic finale, the pair dance in the grounds of a Chantilly chapel before drifting away on a raft to the strains of Gershwin's S'wonderful. Astaire recalled that the Paris shoot was besieged with rain ....and little audrey she said "Here I have waited twenty years to dance with Fred Astaire and what do I get? Mud! My favourite remar
The film has become something of a classic, with American Film citing it as one of the most lushly gorgeous Technicolor films every produced.
Each lot of Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection will be issued with a Certificate of Provenance, signed by Audrey Hepburn’s sons, Sean Hepburn Ferrer & Luca Dotti. All photographic material (only) will also be stamped as from the sale Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection, September 2017, Christie’s.

Artwork auctioned at five times the upper estimate price

When the work Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956 by Bud Fraker was auctioned at Christies in London in September 2017, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - GBP 1,500.00 but the actual price achieved was more than five times as high at GBP 8,750.00 (€ 9,926.99). Admittedly, works by Bud Fraker have also been auctioned for a multiple of this price - according to our records, the highest result so far was achieved by the work Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956 in September 2017 with an auction result of GBP 56,250.00 (€ 63,816.35).

Kunstwerk zum Fünffachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert

Als die Arbeit Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956 von Bud Fraker im September 2017 bei Christies in London versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – GBP 1.500,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit GBP 8.750,00 (€ 9.926,99) mehr als fünfmal so hoch. Freilich wurden Arbeiten von Bud Fraker auch schon für ein Vielfaches dieses Preises versteigert – das bisher höchste Ergebnis erzielte nach unseren Aufzeichnungen die Arbeit Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956 im September 2017 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 56.250,00 (€ 63.816,35).

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