Lot 34
  • 34

Irving Penn b. 1917

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'frozen food (with string beans)'
dye-transfer print, signed, titled, dated, and annotated by the photographer in pencil and with his Vogue copyright and printing information stamps on the reverse, matted, framed, 1977, printed in 1993, one of no more than 21 prints of this image in dye-transfer (Still Life, cover and unpaginated; Chicago, pl. 42)

Provenance

Acquired by the present owner from Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2001

Condition

This dye-transfer print, on double-weight paper, is in generally very good to excellent condition. There is a slight wave in the paper in the center portion of the photograph. When examined in raking light, a 3 1/4-by-2 1/2-inch area of transparent glass offsetting is visible.
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