Details
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Bird Bones, Sweden, 1980
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1981
signed, titled, dated [with print date], and numbered ‘18/32’ and ‘AR 1592’ in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit (flush mount, verso)
image: 19 x 11 ½ in. (48.2 x 29.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 24 x 16 in. (60.9 x 40.6 cm.)
This work is number eighteen from an edition of thirty-two.
Provenance
Fahey Klein, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn Recent Still Life Negatives 1979-1980, Prints in Platinum Metals 1980-1982, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, 1982, cat. no. 26, p. 12.
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