RICHARD AVEDON

RICHARD AVEDON
A typescript letter, signed, from Richard Avedon to Audrey Hepburn on 407 East Seventy Fifth Street, New York headed stationery, dated 18 April, 1991, the one page letter addressed in black ink Dearest Audrey, requesting her forgiveness for being unable to speak at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Gala Tribute to Audrey Hepburn ...I can do almost anything, but talk publicly about what I feel deeply... You can imagine how humiliating it would be for us if I spoke from the heart about you in front of a thousand people. I worked on a speech for two weeks and tore it up this morning... I just can't do a star's turn about us in any heaven other than my darkroom. You know I love you..., signed love Dick
11 x 8 ½ in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm.)

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