Debbie Harry Tiger Dress

BOB GRUEN (B. 1945)

Debbie Harry, Tiger Dress, Max's Kansas City, NYC, 1976

signed, titled, and dated 'DEBBI HARRY Bob Gruen NYC 1982' (lower margin); stamped with the photographer's copyright (on the reverse)

silver gelatin print

image: 13 x 9 1/4 inches (33 x 23.5 cm)

sheet: 13 7/8 x 11 inches (35.2 x 27.9 cm)

Executed in 1976. Printed in 1982. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed and dated by the artist.

Debbie Harry photographed at Max's Kansas City — the Park Avenue South club at the heart of New York's music scene — in 1976, the year of Blondie's signing to Private Stock Records and the release of the band's debut single "X Offender". Bob Gruen's tiger-dress portrait catches Harry at the moment her image was beginning to consolidate into the public icon Blondie's next four albums would build on.

Gruen photographed Harry across the entire Blondie run, and his images of her from the mid-1970s New York scene remain among the most widely reproduced of the era.

PROVENANCE:

From the studio of Bob Gruen