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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Mailman, 1950

    Price Realised USD 47,880
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    USD 50,000 - USD 70,000
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    IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

    Mailman, 1950

    Price Realised USD 47,880
    Price Realised USD 47,880
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    IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
    Mailman, 1950
    platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1970
    signed, dated [with print date] and numbered '7/8' in pencil, credited, titled, and dated on affixed reproduction limitation label and stamped edition information (mount, verso)
    image: 19 1/4 x 14 in. (48.8 x 35.5 cm.)
    sheet: 24 x 20 in. (60.9 x 50.8 cm.)
    mount: 25 x 20 in. (63.5 x 50.8 cm.)
    This work is number seven from an edition of eight.
    Provenance
    Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
    acquired from the above by the present owner.
    Literature
    Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 169.
    Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Small Trades, The J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, pl. 143.
    Exhibition Catalogue, Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 178, pl. 94.
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