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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Woman with Roses on her Arm (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950

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    USD 80,000 - USD 120,000
    IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

    Woman with Roses on her Arm (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950
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    IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
    Woman with Roses on her Arm (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), 1950
    platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1977
    signed, titled, dated [with print date], numbered '38/40' and '31' in pencil, Les Editions Condé-Nast copyright credit, reproduction limitation and edition stamps (mount, verso)
    image: 21 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (54.6 x 36.8 cm.)
    sheet: 24 5/8 x 22 in. (62.5 x 55.8 cm.)
    mount: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.8 cm.)
    Provenance
    Sotheby's, New York, October 7, 2016, lot 108;
    acquired from the above by the present owner.
    Literature
    John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art ; Distributed by New York Graphic Society Books, New York, 1984, pl. 54.
    Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf: Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 85.
    Irving Penn, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, pl. 35, p.18.
    Irving Penn, Still Life, Bulfinch Press Book, Boston, 2001, p.5.
    Irving Penn, Irving Platinum: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press, Washington: New Haven, 2005,pl. 20.
    Maria Mori Hamburg, Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2017, pl.45, p.113.
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