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Evelyn Lauder
Luminous Leaf Color Photo C Print Foliage Vintage Plant Photograph Evelyn Lauder

1999

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Evelyn Lauder limited edition photograph. Titled: Luminous Leaf. Depicts a close up picture of a semi translucent leaf with light shining through. Measures 16" x 20". No signature on front but I believe they are signed verso. Not inspected out of frame. Label on verso reads: Evelyn H. Lauder Luminous Leaf, September 1999 C-print, edition #10/10 Housed in frame measuring 23" x 27". Good overall condition with wear to frame. Provenance: From the estate Vic and Rena Rowan Damone, Palm Beach, Florida. Vic Damone was a notable singer, songwriter, actor, and philanthropist. Rena Rowan Damone was the highly successful lead designer and one of the founding members of the clothing company Jones New York. Evelyn Lauder (née Hausner; August 12, 1936 – November 12, 2011) was an Austrian American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and promoters of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer. Lauder, an avid photographer, had a home in Colorado and a penthouse on Fifth Avenue lined with modern art. She was born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, to a Jewish family. Lauder’s family fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, using their household silver to get visas to Belgium. They then moved on to England where her mother was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man and Evelyn was placed in a nursery. The family arrived in New York City in 1940. Lauder would later recall that she was asleep when the ship bringing them to the United States arrived in New York Harbor and her mother woke her up to see the Statue of Liberty During the war years her father worked as a diamond cutter; then the family opened the first of what became a chain of five dress shops in Manhattan. She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1954. She then attended Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, where she studied Psychology and Anthropology and also where she met her future husband, Leonard Lauder, then a trainee naval officer, on a blind date. She graduated from Hunter College in 1958. The couple were married on July 5, 1959. After the marriage, she worked for several years as a public school teacher in Harlem before leaving to work with her husband at the company founded in 1946 by her mother-in-law, Estée Lauder, which at the time sold six products: a red lipstick, creams, lotions, and Youth Dew fragrance in a bath oil. Lauder, an executive at Estée Lauder, created the Clinique brand name and developed its product line. Lauder personally raised much of the $13.6 million that went to create the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which opened in October 1992 and focuses on the treatment and diagnosis of breast cancer. They have amassed a magnificent art collection for the Center, including hundreds of stunning artworks from internationally celebrated artists such as Chuck Close, Michele Oka Doner, Beverly Pepper, Ellen Phelan, Lorna Simpson and Pat Steir. She helped raise an additional $5 million to create an endowment to be used to fund clinical research there. Evelyn Lauder's photographs were exhibited across the globe at many prestigious galleries from 1992 to 2012. Her last exhibition was held at the Gagosian Gallery in London in the Fall of 2011. In 2010, a 30 year retrospective entitled Beauté et Sérénité was presented at Galerie des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, France. In the United States, Lauder exhibited her work at Pace\MacGill Gallery and Holly Solomon Gallery in New York City, John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco, Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, Winston/Wachter Gallery in NYC and Seattle, and Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in Saint Louis. Internationally, solo exhibitions were held at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London, the Jerusalem Centre for Performing Arts in Israel, Duran Exposiciones in Madrid, Tectona in Paris, MACBA in Barcelona and the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Extensive collections of Evelyn Lauder's photographs can be viewed at the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, the Evelyn H. Lauder Patient Care Pavilion at Aspen Valley Hospital in Aspen, and the Lee Bell Center for Breast Imaging at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. She cites Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, Imogen Cunningham, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Lynn Geesaman and Andreas Gursky as just some of her favorite photographers. Her photographs are also in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Estée Lauder Companies, The Chase Manhattan Bank, and the private collections of Richard Meier, Elton John and Donna Karan among others. Following Lauder's death, Delta Air Lines, which had already dedicated one of its Boeing 767-400ER long-haul planes in honor of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation that Lauder founded and painted it in a pink livery while Lauder was living, re-christened and renamed the same plane in her memory.
  • Creator:
    Evelyn Lauder (1936 - 2011)
  • Creation Year:
    1999
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. frame has minor wear.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU38214359282

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