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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Cuzco Children, Peru 1948
gelatin silver print, printed before 1975
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered ‘11028’ in ink, stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credits and edition information (verso)
image: 15 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (38.7 x 36.1 cm.)
sheet: 16 x 16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 cm.)
This work is from an edition of thirty.
Provenance
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by a private collector, 1985;
Photographs: The Classic, Christie's New York, December 6 – 15, 2016, lot 2;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Literature
Alexander Liberman, Moments Preserved, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 98.
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small World, Grossman, New York, 1974, p. 13.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 59.
Alexander Liberman et al, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 61.
Kennedy Fraser, On the Edge: Images From 100 Years of Vogue, Random House, New York, 1992, p. 79.
Colin Westerrbeck (ed.), Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown and Co., 1997, cat no. 37, p. 177.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2005, pl. 15.
Maria Morris Hambourg and Jeff Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2017, pl. 50.
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