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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Ospedale, 1980
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1981
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered ‘10/54’ in ink, stamped photographer's copyright credit and edition information (flush mount, verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image; 19 ¼ x 11 3/8 in. (48.8 x 28.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 25 x 16 in. (63.5 x 40.6 cm.)
This work is number ten from an edition of fifty-four.
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, New York, 1982, pl. 22, p. 16.
Alexander Liberman et al., Irving Penn: Passage, A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 229.
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