Lot 75
  • 75

Irving Penn

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Butchers, Paris, 1950
  • photograph
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1976. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/33, annotated and with several stamps on the reverse. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Christie's New York, 19th and 20th Century Photographs, 28/29 October 1987, lot 399

Literature

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, exh. cat. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, ill. pl. 88;
Irving Penn et al., Passage. A work record, London, Jonathan Cape, New York, Callaway, 1991, ill. p. 89;
Virginia A. Heckert, Anne Lacoste, Irving Penn. Small Trades, ex. cat. Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009, ill. p. 167.

Condition

This print is in excellent general condition.
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