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Irving Penn

'Nude 150'

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April 10, 04:07 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

'Nude 150'


platinum-palladium print, signed, titled and editioned '33/57' in pencil and with the photographer's copyright, credit, and reproduction limitation stamps on the reverse, framed

image: 18¼ by 17½ in. (46.4 by 44.5 cm.)

frame: 27¾ by 26¾ in. (70.5 by 67.9 cm.)

Executed in 1949-50, printed in 1974.

Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals–Images 1947-1975 (New York, 1977), back cover

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), p. 79

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 66

Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), pp. 17, 76-77, and back cover

Maria Morris Hambourg, Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1949-50 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), p. 89

Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random (New York, 2004), p. 106