Lot 57
  • 57

Irving Penn

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Irving Penn
  • 'Girl With Nose Disc', Cameroon, 1969
  • Vintage Platinum Palladium
  • Image 49 x 58.3 cm (19¼ x 23 in.);sheet 56 x 63 cm (22 x 24¾ in.) 
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1970 and flush-mounted to aluminum. Signed in pen, and signed, titled, dated, numbered 7/9 and 391 in pencil, with the Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso. With gallery labels bearing information about the work in facsimile affixed to the back of the frame. 

Provenance

Pace MacGill Gallery, New York 
Bernheimer Fine Art, Lucerne 
Private collection, Switzerland

Condition

This beautiful and neutral toned platinum print is in overall excellent condition.
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