Lot 127
  • 127

Irving Penn

Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Iron Couple, 1980
  • signed, titled, dated, numbered, and annotated Print made November 1981 and AR1352 in pencil by the photographer and with the photographer's copyright stamp and edition stamp on the reverse

  • platinum-palladium print on Strathmore paper, flush-mounted to aluminium
  • aluminium board: 40.7 by 61cm. 16 by 24in.
  • Executed in 1981, this work is number 8 from an edition of 17.
Platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminium. On the reverse signed, titled, dated, numbered 8/17, annotated Print made November 1981 and Platinum-palladium Strathmore Paper on Aluminium, and AR1352 in pencil by the photographer; with the photographer's copyright stamp, dated 1981 in pencil, and with edition stamp.

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Marlborough Gallery, Irving Penn, Recent Still Life, 1982, pl. 20
Irving Penn, Still Life. Irving Penn photographs 1938-2000, Boston 2001, ill. n.p., illustration of another example

Condition

The print is in very good general condition, with very light random foxing.
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