Lot 125
  • 125

Irving Penn

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Enga Warrior', 1970
  • Platinum palladium print
Platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted to aluminium. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/15 in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp dated 1970, the 'Hand-coated by the photographer' stamp and 'In addition to 15 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist' stamp on the reverse. With a gallery label bearing information about the work in facsimile affixed to the back of the frame. Mounted and framed.

Provenance

Hamiltons Gallery, London

Literature

Irving Penn - Passage. Ein Lebenswerk, Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 1991, ill. p. 191.

Condition

This print is in overall very good condition. With some light discolouration to the paper in the margins, away from the image.
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