Irving Penn (1917-2009)

Platinum-palladium print. Flush-mounted to thin aluminium support. On the reverse, signed and numbered 25/45, annotated One coating, double printing, platinum-palladium Arches Paper Dec. 1968 and monogrammed in pencil,  with stamps 'In addition to 45 numbered prints in platinum metals, unnumbered but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 30 may exist.', 'Hand-coated by the photographer' and ' Deacidified to pH 8.5-9.5', additionally annotated in typewriter PICASSO/ Photograph by Irving Penn/ Copyright © 1960 by / Irving Penn/ Not to be reproduced without written/ permission of the copyright owner and/ the Conde Nast Publications Inc., on a label fixed to the reverse. Mounted and framed.

Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris (with gallery label fixed to the back of the frame)

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1987, ill. p. 27;
Irving Penn, Passage. A Work Record, Jonathan Cape, London 1991, ill. p. 125.

This print was made in 1968. The image is in excellent condition, without any scratches or other superficial damage. There is a slightly yellowed border (approx. 10 mm) around the image in the margin, presumably due to an earlier mounting. There is a slightly more pronounced discoloration (approx. 7 mm) along the edges of the sheet (in the margin), probably also due to earlier mounting. The corners and edges of the sheet are partially slightly worn. The thin cardboard on the reverse of the aluminium support has small slight discoloration along the edges and partially minor surface dirt. There are some scratches in the visible part of the aluminium board at the upper edge of the work.
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