Irving Penn

Platinum-palladium print, printed December 1977- January 1978, flush-mounted to aluminium. On the reverse, signed, titled, dated, numbered 37/40, annotated in pencil. Edition and copyright stamps annotated in pencil. Matted and framed.

Christie's, New York, Photographs, 12 october 2005, lot 125
Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, London, Grossman, 1974, ill. p. 83, cover and frontispiece.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals - Images 1947-1975, London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1977, cat. no. 110.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 94.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, ill. p 199.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, Washington, D.C./New Haven, 2005, pl. 61.
Irving Penn: Le centenaire, exhib. cat., New York/Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/RMN-Grand Palais, 2017, p. 240, pl. 152

This platinum-palladium print is in excellent general condition. On the reverse of the card, a few tiny rust-colored deposits, possibly foxing in the upper left corner.
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