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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Cigarette #37, New York, 1974
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1975
signed, titled, dated {with print date], annotated and numbered '14 / 70' and 'C59' in pencil, with stamped photographer's copyright credit and reproduction limitation in ink (mount, verso)
image: 2312 x 1734 in. (59.8 x 45 cm.)
sheet: 2434 x 22 in. (63 x 56 cm.)
mount: 2618 x 22 in. (66.2 x 56 cm.)
This work is number fourteen from an edition of seventy.
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired directly from the above by the present owner, 1992.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 118.
Merry A. Foresta & William F. Stapp, Irving Penn, Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1990, pl. 46, p. 59.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Jonathan Cape, Londres, 1991, p. 203.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn: Collection privée, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, 1994, cat. n°65, p. 90.
John Szarkowski, Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000, Little, Brown and Co., 2001, n.p.
Tim Jefferies, Irving Penn Cigarettes, Hamiltons Gallery/the Irving Penn Foundation, London, 2012, Plate V.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum/Irving Penn Foundation/Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 2015, pl. 124, p.178.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn. Le Centenaire, Grand Palais, Paris, 2018, p. 249.
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