Details
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Four Guedras, Morocco, 1971
platinum print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1985
signed, titled, dated, numbered '14/18' and '3344' in ink and stamped with photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit and edition information (flush mount, verso)
image: 2278 x 1958 in. (58.1 x 49.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 2412 x 21 in. (62.2 x 53.3 cm.)
This work is number fourteen from an edition of eighteen.
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, April 26, 1990, lot 378;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1990, cat. no. 44, p. 57.
Yvonne Lehnherr and Raoul Blanchard, Irving Penn: Collection prive´e, Privatsammlung, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, Editions Benteli, 1994, cat. no. 64, p.89.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum/the Irving Penn Foundation/Yale University Press, New Haven, and London, 2015, cat. no. 119, p.173.
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