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Irving Penn

'Balenciaga Harem Dress (Paris, 1950)'

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

'Balenciaga Harem Dress (Paris, 1950)'


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1950, one from an edition of 10

image: 16 by 13⅝ in. (40.6 by 34.6 cm.)

frame: 25½ by 22½ in. (64.8 by 57.2 cm.)

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2011
"Fashion: From Balenciaga: Mantle Coat/Airy Volume," Vogue, 1 September 1950, vol. 116, no. 4, p. 129

Irving Penn, Passage (New York, 1991), p. 86

San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, Irving Penn: Radical Beauty 1946-2007, June – August 2011
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