Lot 124
  • 124

Irving Penn

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 EUR
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Picasso, 1957
  • Platinum-palladium print, printed 1978, flush-mounted to aluminium. On the reverse, signed, titled, dated, numbered 45/45, copyright and edition stamps. Matted and framed.
  • photograph
  • 49,9 x 49,4 cm; 19 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris
Collection Jacques Grange, Paris

Literature

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, exh. cat. New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1987, ill. p. 27;
Irving Penn, Passage. A Work Record, Londres, Jonathan Cape, 1991, ill. p. 125
Irving Penn: Le centenaire, exhib. cat., New York/Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/RMN-Grand Palais, 2017, p. 6, p. 209, pl. 130

Condition

This print is in excellent overall condition. The upper right corner slightly worn, the lower margin with a few black dots and a light line along the edges consistent with the platinum process, all away from the image.
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Catalogue Note

© The Irving Penn Foundation