Lot 245
  • 245

Irving Penn b. 1917

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'marc chagall, new york'
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, dated, numbered '1/40,' and annotated by the photographer in pencil and with his printing information and Condé Nast reproduction, copyright, and credit stamps annotated by him in pencil, and with a typed label with title, credit, and copyright annotated by the photographer in ink, on the reverse, matted, 1947, printed May-June 1969, no. 1 in an edition of 40 in platinum metals (Passage, p. 30; Platinum Prints, pl. 5; Notebook at Random, p. 89, variant cropping)

Provenance

Acquired by the present owners from Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, 1992

Condition

This multiply-printed platinum-palladium print, on Wiggins Teape paper, is in generally excellent condition.
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