Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 37
  • 37

Irving Penn b. 1917

Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'NEW YORK STILL LIFE'
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, numbered '12/65,' and with technical, edition, and copyright information by the photographer in pencil and his Condé Nast copyright and edition stamps on the reverse, matted, 1947, printed in 1978, no. 12 in an edition of 65 in platinum metals

Provenance

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston in 1988

Exhibited

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston (Monterey Museum of Art, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 22 (this print)

Other prints of this image:

Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), pp. 120-21

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 73

Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery (Washington, D. C.: National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, 1990, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 2

Irving Penn: Passage, A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 39

Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, in conjunction with the exhibition), fig. 21, p. 181

Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs 1938 - 2000 (Boston, 2001), unpaginated

Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (National Gallery of Art, 2005, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 6

Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 51

Catalogue Note

Irving Penn wrote the following about 'New York Still Life (Elements of a Party),' an editorial photograph he made for Vogue,

'New York Still Life with Food:  A culinary melting pot, New York has prosciutto and Provolone from Italy via Little Italy, wine and liqueurs from France, Germany, Spain, Greece, Chile, and Japan.  In fact, food from almost any nation can be bought somewhere in the city; is bought and eaten by people who have never seen or seriously contemplated the country of origin.  Other crossroads elements here:  the Limoges coffee cup, eighteenth-century English wineglass, a sack of cracked corn, Romano cheese, a Victorian compote, a blue and gold Chinese Lowestoft platter and a pot of Armorial Lowestoft, an Irish linen cloth, French bread baked in Manhattan, probably by Italian and Irish bakers' (Moments Preserved, p. 121).