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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Rag and Bone Man, London, 1951
platinum–palladium print, printed 1961
signed, titled, dated and numbered '9/32' and 'p409' in pencil, stamped edition information and photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit (verso)
image: 1612 x 13 in. (41.9 x 33 cm.)
sheet: 2214 x 18 in. (56.5 x 45.7 cm.)
This work is number nine from an edition of thirty-two.
Provenance
Sotheby's, London, May 10, 2001, lot 488;
acquired from the above sale by Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, 2001;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Passage, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 98.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2005, cat. no. 31.
Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste, Irving Penn: Small Trades, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, pl. 200.
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