Prints & Photographs Part I

Prints & Photographs Part I

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Irving Penn

‘Gas Company Mechanic, N. Y.’

Live auction begins on:

April 14, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Bid

45,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Irving Penn

1917 - 2009


‘Gas Company Mechanic, N. Y.’

platinum-palladium print, signed twice, titled, dated and editioned 4/4 in pencil, and with the photographer's Photograph by Irving Penn and Conde Nast copyright/reproduction rights stamps on the reverse

image: 16 ⅝ by 12 in. (42.4 by 30.6 cm.)

Executed in 1951, printed in 1967.

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner

“A Gallery of the Unarmed Forces” Vogue, July 1951, p. 44

Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste, Irving Penn: Small Trades, Los Angeles 2009, p. 207