Details
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Three Asaro Mud Men, New Guinea, 1970
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed before 1975
signed, titled, dated [with print date], and numbered ‘8913’ in ink, stamped photographer's edition, copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 13 ½ x 13 ½ in. (34.2 x 34.2 cm.)
mount: 15 x 15 in. (38.1 x 38.1 cm.)
This work is from an edition of twenty-five.
Provenance
Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990.
Literature
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Penguin Books, New York, 1980, P. 65.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 108.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, cover and p. 193.
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