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£38,100
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£50,000
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PHOTOGRAPHS & HELMUT NEWTON: PROVOCATEUR
ARTIST
Irving Penn
Size
56.5 x 56.5 cm (22 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
Description
Medium
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1965, mounted.
Signature
Signed, initialled, titled 'Picasso, Cannes, France, Nov', dated in ink, Condé Nast copyright credit (courtesy Vogue) reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 30.
Provenance
Galleria Photology, Milan
Private Collection, London
Literature
I. Penn, Moments Preserved, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 39
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York: MoMA, 1984, p. 27, pl. 17
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 125
C. Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, London: Bulfinch, 1997, p. 114
S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/New Haven: Yale U., 2005, pl. 37
Irving Penn: Portraits, London: NPG, 2010, n.p.
Irving Penn: Centennial, New York: MoMA, 2017, pl. 130, p. 209