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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
John Marin, New York, 1948
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1977
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '2 / 40' and '1001' in pencil, with photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit and reproduction limitation on affixed label, stamped edition information (mount, verso)
image: 2112 x 1558 in. (54.6 x 39.7 cm.)
sheet: 25 x 22 in. (63.5 x 55.9 cm.)
mount: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.9 cm.)
This work is number two from an edition of forty.
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the late owner, 1990s.
Literature
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 134.
Irving Penn, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Fribourg, 1984, pl. 4, p. 22.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 14.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 28.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2005, pl. 3.
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