Lot 42
  • 42

Irving Penn

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Wet Brushes', New York, April 13th 1955
  • Silver print
  • 60.5 x 34.5 cm (23¾ x 13½ in.)
Selenium-toned silver print, printed 1995. Signed, initialed, titled, dated and annotated in pencil with the artist's copyright stamp on the verso. One from an edition of no more than 8 signed silver prints. With an gallery label bearing information about the work in facsimile affixed to the back of the frame. Matted and framed. 

Provenance

Hamilton's Gallery, London 
Private collection, UK

Condition

This selenium-toned print is in overall very good condition. With a faint linear scuff in upper right quadrant and two smaller faint scuffs in the lower right quadrant, only visible in raking light. With random and light hairline scratches and faint finger print marks, only visible in raking light.
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