Private Sale
IRVING PENN
Frozen Foods
1977
Dye-transfer print
Edition of 33
Price upon request
Description
Irving Penn (American, 1917-2009).
Flush-mounted to card.
Printed in 1984.
Dimensions
Image: Height 23.25" Width 18.12 in.
Signature
Signed, titled, dated, with edition and reference number '14697' and printing date in black pen, with the photographer's copyright, edition and printing date stamps, all on verso
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Private collection, Europe
Exhibition
Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, 396 Fotografiska förälskelser, June 16 – August 19 2001
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
Irving Penn: Le centenaire, exhib. cat. (New York / Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of art / RMN-Grand Palais, 2017), p. 37, pl. 29
Condition Report
Very GoodThis dye transfer print is in overall excellent condition, a stunning print with beautiful tones.
Dry mounted to original card.
Some tiny retouching marks across print only visible in raking light.
A faint finger mark on card, away from the print.