Irving Penn

platinum-palladium print, signed, titled, dated, annotated, and editioned '18/69' in pencil and stamped on the reverse, 1975

Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1980

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 221

Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals, Images 1947-1975 (New York, 1977), unpaginated

This print, on blindstamped and watermarked heavy Arches paper with right and left deckled edges, is in generally excellent condition. The paper is slightly wavy, and there is very slight age-darkening at the periphery of the paper. On the reverse are 12 small cloth tape remains at the periphery from having been previously tipped to a mountboard. The reverse is lightly soiled, and there is what appears to be a linear graphite deposit at the upper left corner. This print was made in September 1975, according to the photographer's annotation on the reverse.
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