Irving Penn
Cuzco Children
Lot Closed
April 10, 04:09 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
Cuzco Children, Peru
gelatin silver print, mounted, the photographer's 'Photograph by PENN' and Condé Nast copyright stamps on the reverse, overmatted, initialed and inscribed 'For Kitty with [love]. From a devoted admirer' in ink on the mat, in the original Lucite box frame
image: 15⅛ by 16⅛ in. (38.4 by 41 cm.)
frame: 17¾ by 18⅜ in. (45.1 by 46.7 cm.)
Executed in 1948.
The photographer to Catherine D'Alessio, former president of Chanel
By descent to the present owner
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), pp. 98-9
Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals–Images 1947-1975 (New York, 1977), unpaginated
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), p. 59
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), p. 13
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 61
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 177
Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random (New York: Bulfinch, 2004), pp. 90 and 91
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005), pl. 15
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