Lot 58
The Palm of Miles Davis, New York
Sold
£152,400
Est £40,000 - £60,000
Live Auction
PHOTOGRAPHS & HELMUT NEWTON: PROVOCATEUR
ARTIST
Irving Penn
Size
49.4 x 49.2 cm (19 1/2 x 19 3/8 in.)
Description

Medium
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print, printed 1992, mounted.
Signature
Signed, titled, dated, annotated in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 9.
Provenance
Hamiltons Gallery, London Private Collection, London Phillips, London, Photographs, 17 May 2012, lot 106
Literature
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 259 (variant) C. Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, London: Bulfinch, 1997, p. 78 (variant) I. Penn, A Notebook at Random, New York: Bulfinch, 2004, p. 70 Irving Penn: Centennial, New York: MoMA, 2017, pl. 71, p. 191 (variant)