Lot 95
  • 95

Irving Penn

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Cigarette No. 82, New York', 1972
  • photograph on paper
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1974, flush-mounted to aluminium. Signed, initialled, dated and numbered 4/7, annotated neg. no. 82 and Rives Paper on Aluminium, single coating - multiple printing, palladium, print made May 1974 and No more than 7 original prints will ever be made of this picture, with the photographer's copyright stamp annotated 1974, the reproduction limitation stamp, the 'Hand-coated by the photographer' and 'Deacidified' stamps on the reverse. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Literature

Irving Penn Cigarettes, London, Hamiltons Gallery, 2012, ill. pl. XV.

Condition

This print is in excellent condition. The edges occasionally very slightly worn.
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