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Property of a Hamptons Estate

Irving Penn

Nude 55

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July 20, 05:14 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Hamptons Estate

Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

Nude 55


the photographer's 'Photograph by PENN' credit stamp and a Condé Nast copyright/reproduction rights stamp (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print

16⅞ by 15¼ in.

42.9 by 38.7 cm.

Executed in 1949; printed in 1950.

Marlborough Gallery, Inc., New York

Acquired from the above in 1980 by the present owner

Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, New York, 1960, p. 153, illustrated

Exh. Cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, 1997, p. 17, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn’s Nudes, 1949-50, 2002, p. 59 (variant), illustrated