Lot 196
Lot 196
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Sitting Woman, New Guinea, 1970

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USD 15,000 - USD 25,000
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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Sitting Woman, New Guinea, 1970

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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Sitting Woman, New Guinea, 1970
selenium toned gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1984
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered ‘8741’ in ink, stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright and edition information (mount, verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 19 x 18 5/8 in. (48.2 x 47.3 cm.)
mount: 23 x 23 in. (58.4 x 58.4 cm.)
This work is from an edition of twenty.
Provenance
Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 109.
Alexander Liberman et al, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 192.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., 2015, pl. 111.
Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff L. Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2017, p. 227.
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