Lot 44
  • 44

Irving Penn

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Dora Maar, 1948
  • Vintage silver print flush-mounted to card. Signed and dated in ink on the card. On the reverse, dedicated in ink Print for Mme Maar and Dora Maar estate and photographer's stamp. Matted and framed.
  • photograph
  • Print 19 x 18,9 cm; 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.; card 36,2 x 28,2 cm; 14 x 11 in.

Provenance

Vente Les collections de Dora Maar, Piasa, 20 novembre 1998, lot 230
Collection Jacques Grange, Paris

Literature

Irving Penn, Alexandra Arrowsmith, Nicola Majocchi, Irving Penn a Work Record, New York, Callaway, 1991, ill. p. 45.
Irving Penn: Le centenaire, exhib. cat., New York/Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/RMN-Grand Palais, 2017, p. 194, pl. 116

Condition

This silver print is in overall excellent condition. Upon close inspection, a 1 mm loss of the gelatin layer near the lower right corner.
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Catalogue Note

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