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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Duchess of Windsor, New York, May 27, 1948
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated [with print date], and numbered ‘2301’ in pencil, stamped photographer's edition, copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation (verso)

image: 9 ½ x 7 5/8 in. (24.1 x 19.3 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.)

This work is from an edition of forty.
Provenance
Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago;
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, October 8, 2010, lot 198;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved; Eight Essays in Photographs and Words, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 83.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 54.
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