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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Steinberg in Nose Mask, New York, 1966
platinum-palladium print, printed 1976
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '17/36' and ‘P 1801’ in pencil, stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credits and edition information (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed label (frame backing board)
image: 2434 x 21 in. (62.8 x 53.3 cm.)
sheet: 30 x 2214 in. (76.2 x 56.5 cm.)
This work is number seventeen from an edition of thirty-six.
Provenance
Christie's, New York, October 13, 1992, lot 586;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,1984, pl. 143.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 158.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005, pl. 43.
Magdalene Keaney, Irving Penn Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London: 2010, cover.
rMaria Morris Hambourg and Jeff L. Rosenheim, Irving Penn: Centennial, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2017, pl. 183.
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