Today RichardAvedon's iconic portrait of MarellaAgnelli hangs in the Met ✨
were both in Tiffany’s window, Marella would be more expensive,” Truman Capote once told Kate Graham, in whose honour he threw his legendary Black and White Ball. Donna Marella was his European swan, the youngest of his lamentation of high society swans. She was a Neapolitan princess who married Italy’s richest man. Before that, she worked for Erwin Blumenfeld andHer husband wasn’t so faithful – she likened herself to Penelope, Odysseus’ wife.
“He used brilliant focused light in a way that seems to hold the contours of his subjects into an almost sculptural form,” wrote Carol Squires in. “These portraits were made to convey an array of positive qualities in the women he photographed, from contemporary ideas of beauty to the poetics of artistic talent.”
In the portrait, Agnelli epitomises a beauty that transcends fashion – there are no accessories and no distinctive garment to distract from the handsome line of her neck leading down to her bare back and arm, aquiline nose and majestic, penetrating gaze. Her dark-eyed beauty is strong featured with a self-assured confidence, not to mention utterly far away from the perky American ideal of mid-century beauty.
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