Lot 53

Private collection, Sydney

Hollywood at Home, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 31 July - 5 October 1992 (another impression)

Byron, S., Hollywood at Home: Photographs by Sid Avery, Sydney, 1992, cat.no. 30 (illus., another impression)

"Sid Avery was an American photographer who was best known for capturing the private moments of legendary Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn, as seen in his book, 'Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965', published in 1990.
Avery's work in the 1950s and 60s was a departure from the glamorised portraits of an earlier Hollywood era when images of the stars were tightly controlled by the major film studios. It was often featured in publications such as Life, Look, Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post."
(Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney)

Other impressions of this photograph are in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham.