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Irving Penn

Cretan Landscape

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October 17, 04:26 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Irving Penn

1917 - 2009

Cretan Landscape


pigment print on porcelainized steel, hand-coated by the photographer, his typed process information label, signed and annotated in ink on a typed 'Photograph by Irving Penn/Condé Nast Publications' credit and copyright label, with typed title and date, on the reverse; accompanied by a paper fragment, initialed, dated '1968,' and inscribed 'Gift to Gordon Munro. With Warmest greetings. I. P. June 1976' in ink

image: 15½ by 22 in. (39.4 by 55.9 cm.)

Executed in 1964, probably printed in 1968.


Please note that this lot will not be on view at Sotheby's York Avenue during the presale exhibition. It is available to view by appointment at Sotheby's Gantry Point in Long Island City, New York. Please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com to schedule an appointment.

Gift of the photographer to the present owner, 1976

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1984), p. 35

Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images (Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1990), pl. 36

Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record (New York, 1991), p. 147