chromogenic print, signed, titled, dated, and editioned '1/10' in red crayon and with the photographer's Monte Carlo copyright and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, 1994

Galerie Kicken, Cologne, 1996

New York, Thread Waxing Space, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl, September - October 1996, and 8 other national and international venues through 1999 (see Appendix 1)

Marianne Courville, Collection in Context: Selected Contemporary Photographs of Hands from the Collection of Henry M. Buhl (New York, 1996), pl. 46 (this print)

Vogue Paris, June/July 1994

This glossy chromogenic print is in generally excellent condition. The colors remain rich and saturated, with no apparent fading. Upon close examination in high raking light, a small soft crease is visible in the upper right quadrant.On the reverse of the print, 'HN 11263 #11' is written in an unidentified hand in ink.
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'Of all the scenes Helmut Newton created for his camera during the half-century he worked as a fashion photographer, none manage to sum up his world view as cogently as one he took for French Vogue in 1994, which pits a woman against a roast chicken. Here, plump-fingered, bejeweled hands tear at a well-glazed bird as if it were about to unleash 1,000 locusts from its cavity' (Ginia Bellafante,  'An Appreciation; Helmut Newton and the Invincible Woman,' New York Times, 3 February 2004).