Lot 64
  • 64

Irving Penn (1917 - 2009)

Estimate
40,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Frozen Foods with String Beans, New York, 1977
  • photograph
Dye-transfer print, printed 1993. Signed, titled and dated Frozen Food (with string beans) (New York, 1977) and annotated REF: 11183 in pencil on the reverse, stamped 'Signed, dye transfer prints of this image not exceeding 21', numbered and monogrammed in pencil by the photographer, 'Dye Transfer Print made 1993'  and with the photographer's Condé Nast copyright stamp with date 1993 in pencil. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Pace McGill Gallery, New York

Literature

Irving Penn. Photographs. A Donation in Memory of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, exh. cat. Stockholm, Moderna Musseet, Raster Foerlag 1996, ill. p. 75.

Condition

In excellent condition. The surface has no scratches or folds. The upper, left and right edges partially slightly darkened. On the reverse at the upper edge with one tape from an earlier mounting and one slightly discoloured spot from a tape, not visible on the surface.
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