Lot 1208
Lot 1208
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Rock Groups, San Francisco, (Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Grateful Dead), 1967

Price Realised USD 40,320
Estimate
USD 20,000 - USD 30,000
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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Rock Groups, San Francisco, (Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Grateful Dead), 1967

Price Realised USD 40,320
Price Realised USD 40,320
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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Rock Groups, San Francisco, (Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Grateful Dead), 1967
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1980
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '40/50' and ‘2446’ in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and edition information (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and gallery labels (frame backing board)
image: 19 x 1958 in. (48.4 x 49.8 cm.)
sheet: 22 x 2458 in. (55.8 x 62.5 cm.)
mount: 22 x 26 in. (55.8 x 66 cm.)
This work is number forty from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Pace Wildenstein MacGill, New York;
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, October 18, 2006, lot 202;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Penguin Books, New York, 1980, p. 57.
Merry A Foresta, Irving Penn: Master Images the Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1990, pl. 101, p. 137. Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf: Callaway, New York, 1991, p.169. Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Photographs, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, 1997, pl. 3, p.15. Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pl. 46.
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