Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Property of a Hamptons Estate
Irving Penn
Nude 55
Lot Closed
October 5, 04:01 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Irving Penn
1917 - 2009
Nude 55
gelatin silver print, mounted, the photographer's 'Photograph by PENN' credit stamp and a Condé Nast copyright/reproduction rights stamp on the reverse, framed, 1949, printed in 1950
image: 16 ⅞ by 15 ¼ in. (42.9 by 38.7 cm.)
frame: 25 ½ by 23 ½ in. (64.8 by 59.7 cm.)
Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York, 1980
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved (New York, 1960), p. 153
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), p. 17
Maria Morris Hambourg, Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1949-50, (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002), p. 59 (variant)