Irving Penn

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed (twice), dated, numbered '6/11,' and with technical and edition information by the photographer in pencil and typed title, credit, and Condé Nast copyright label on the reverse, matted, framed, a Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica, label affixed to the reverse, 1959, printed in 1970, no. 6 in an edition of 11 in platinum metals (Master Images, pl. 82; Moments Preserved, p. 136; Passage, 101; MoMA, pl. 23)

This print, on Wiggins Teape paper, is in generally excellent condition. There are very faint spots of discoloration in the margins, which do not affect the image. There is an abraded strip around the margin edges from processing.
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