Irving Penn

platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminum, signed, titled, dated, editioned '9/9,' and annotated in ink and pencil and stamped on the reverse, framed, 1967, printed in 1987 (Flowers, cover and p. 25, color variant)

This print is in generally excellent condition. Upon close inspection, a pale rust-colored pin-point deposit is visible near the left of the tulip. On the reverse, the following annotations are written by the photographer in pencil or ink: 'Rives paper on aluminum Single-coating, multiple printing Platinum-palladium print made July 1987' 'In addition to 9 signed platinum-palladium prints of this image there are also 16 signed dye transfer prints [initialed]' '3367' The Condé Nast copyright stamp is dated '1967' in ink.
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