Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

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Irving Penn

'Truman Capote, New York'

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

'Truman Capote, New York'


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1948, printed circa 1948, one from an edition of 41

sheet: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)

frame: 17¾ by 14¾ in. (45.1 by 37.5 cm.)

Christie's New York, 14 February 2006, Sale 1625, Lot 156

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2007

About Face (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014), p. 17 (this print)

Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 182 (this print)

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 9

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 57

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – April 2013

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022

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