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Irving Penn

Cigarette No. 69

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

Cigarette No. 69


platinum print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, dated, editioned '6/46' and annotated 'For Marvin, with all admiration and good wishes to a new friend' and 'A present from Dick to Marvin' in pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, Fraenkel Gallery labels on the reverse, 1972, printed in 1975

image: 22¾ by 18½ in. (57.8 by 47 cm.)

frame: 35¾ by 30¾ in. (90.8 by 78.1 cm.)

Gift of Richard Avedon to Marvin Israel, circa 1975

Sotheby's New York, 6 April 2000, Sale 4750, Lot 306

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2004

Open Secrets: Seventy Pictures on Paper, 1815 to the Present (San Francisco and New York, 1996), p. 56 (this print)

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), pl. 115

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 207