Lot 50
  • 50

Irving Penn

Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 EUR
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • Frozen Foods, New York, 1977
  • photograph
Dye-transfer print, printed 1984, flush-mounted to card. On the reverse, signed, titled, dated, edition, reference number 14713 and printing date in black pen, with the photographer, copyright, edition and printing date stamps.
From an edition of 33. Mounted to passe partout and framed.

Provenance

Christie's, New York, Photographs, 24 April 2006, lot 14
Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris

Literature

"Iced Soups: Flash Foods", Vogue, July 1977, ill. p. 125 (variant)
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 70
Irving Penn, Passage, A Work Record, London, Knopf, 1991, ill. p. 222
Irving Penn: collection privée, exhib. cat., Fribourg, Musée d'art et d'histoire, 1994, pl. 70
Colin Westerbeck (ed.), Irving Penn Photographs 1938-2000, New York, Thames & Hudson, 2001, n.p., cover and within (variant).
Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, exhib. cat., Washington, Smithsonian American Art Museum/ Yale, 2015, p. 189, pl. 132

Condition

This rich and coloured dye-transfer print is in very good to excellent condition. With a crease at the lower right corner.
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Catalogue Note

© The Irving Penn Foundation