Lot 43
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IRVING PENN | 'Enga Warrior'

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Enga Warrior'
  • Signed, titled, dated and numbered 136
    Edition 3 of 15
  • Platinum-palladium print
  • Sight: 18 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, editioned '3/15,' and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, 1970, printed in 1977

Provenance

Christie's London, 17 May 2006, Sale 7226, Lot 97

Literature

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 106Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 191

cf. Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington, D. C.: The National Gallery of Art, 2005), pl. 57-8

Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017), pl. 143

Condition

This platinum-palladium print is in generally excellent condition. The margins are slightly darkened at the periphery of the image.There is minor soiling on the reverse of the mount and there are hinge remnants along the left, right, and upper edges. A small typed label with previous auction information is on the reverse in the upper left corner. On the reverse of the mount, the following is written by the photographer in pencil: 'BF 360 Paper on Aluminum'; 'Multiple coating and printing'; '1) Platinum 2) Platinum-Palladium'; 'Print made November-December 1977.' The photographer's edition stamp indicates that in addition to 15 numbered platinum prints of the image, there may also exist 15 unnumbered but signed gelatin silver prints.
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