Irving Penn

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, dated, and numbered '20/60' by the photographer in pencil and with a label with typed title, credit, and copyright on the reverse, matted, 1960, printed in 1973, no. 20 in an edition of 60 in platinum metals

Acquired by the present owner from Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, 1980

Other prints of this image:

Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), pp. 98-99

Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room (New York, 1974), p. 13

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 5

Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 15

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 61

Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 16

Irving Penn, A Notebook at Random (New York, 2004), p. 91

Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals—Images 1947-1975 (Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1977, in conjunction with the exhibition), unpaginated

This print, multiply-printed and coated, and on Wiggins Teape paper, is in generally excellent condition. There is a 1/4-inch strip of abrasion around the front margin edges, likely from processing or a prior matting.
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