IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Ballet theatre, 1947
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed January 1977
signed, titled, dated, numbered '8/25', notated '316' in pencil, Penn/ Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and stamped 'In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 60 may exist' (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 15½ x 21½ in. (39.8 x 55 cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 22 x 25 in. (56.3 x 64 cm.)

LITERATURE
Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 146; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl.15; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p.36; Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, p. 177, cat no. 18