Irving Penn b. 1917

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, numbered '40/40,' and with printing notations by the photographer in pencil and his Condé Nast copyright and edition stamps on the reverse, matted, 1950, printed in November 1977, no. 40 in an edition of 40 in platinum metals (Platinum Prints, cover, frontispiece, p. 8, and pls. 20 and 84; MoMA, pl. 54; Passage, p. 85; Chicago, pp. 84 and 165; Marlborough, unpaginated; Looking at Photographs, p. 159; After Art, p. 63; Fotografie in Una Collezione Privata, p. 56; Art of the 20th Century, p. 649)