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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Picasso at La Californie, Cannes, 1957

platinum-palladium print, printed 1968
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '13/45' and '523' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation in ink (verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (49.8 x 49.8 cm.)
sheet: 23 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (59.6 x 57.1 cm.)
This work is number thirteen from an edition of forty-five.
Provenance
Pace MacGill Gallery, New York;
to Fahey/Klein Gallery; Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 39.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, p. 27.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf: Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 125.
Colin Westerbeck, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1997, pl. 64, p. 114.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005, pl. 37.
Magdalene Keaney, Irving Penn: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010, pl. 17.
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