Bud Fraker
Audrey Hepburn
Found at
Christies,
London (Online Auction)
Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection, Lot 352
19.Sep - 04.Okt.2017
Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection, Lot 352
19.Sep - 04.Okt.2017
Estimate: 800 - 1.200 GBP
Price realised: 2.250 GBP
Price realised: 2.250 GBP
Description
gelatin silver print
stamped photographer's Paramount studio credit (verso)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 27.9 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.
stamped photographer's Paramount studio credit (verso)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 27.9 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.
Upper estimate price exceeded by 88 %.
This artwork by Bud Fraker achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in September 2017. In the Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection auction, the work Audrey Hepburn sold for GBP 2,250.00 (€ 2,552.65) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 1,200.00. Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Bud Fraker achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956 in September 2017 with an auction result of GBP 56,250.00 (€ 63,816.35).
Oberer Schätzpreis um 88 % übertroffen
Dieses Kunstwerk von Bud Fraker erzielte im September 2017 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Audrey Hepburn: The Personal Collection wurde die Arbeit Audrey Hepburn für GBP 2.250,00 (€ 2.552,65) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 1.200,00. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Bud Fraker erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Audrey Hepburn, circa 1956 im September 2017 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von GBP 56.250,00 (€ 63.816,35).
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