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Lot 79
  • 79

Irving Penn (b. 1917)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 EUR
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, New York, 1948
Tirage argentique, contrecollé sur carton. Au verso du carton, signé, titré, daté, annoté Stewart et  Print made near to date of photographic setting et monogrammé à l'encre noire, avec le tampon copyright du photographe daté 1948 et renewed 1976, le numéro de référence 1809, avec un second tampon copyright et tampon 'Photograph by Penn' et 'Signed, silver prints of this negative not exceeding 20' (chiffre à l'encre noire).

Provenance

Pace/ MacGill Gallery, New York
Collection particulière européenne

Literature

Merry A. Foresta, William F. Stapp, Irving Penn. Master Images, The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, ill. pl. 78;
Irving Penn. People in Passage, Milan, Photology, 1992, ill. p. 45.

Condition

In very good condition. With a few very light spots of black ink in the upper quarter of the image at centre.
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