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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Butcher, London, 1951
platinum–palladium print, printed 1961
signed, titled, dated and numbered '3/38' and 'p211' in pencil, stamped edition information and photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit (verso)
image: 1958 x 1578 in. (49.8 x 40.3 cm.)
sheet: 2212 x 1814 in. (56.5 x 45.7 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of thirty-eight.
Provenance
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, 'Small Trades', Vogue Britannica, February 1951, p. 76.
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 165.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 99.
Virginia Heckert and Anne Lacoste, Irving Penn: Small Trades, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2009, pl. 170 and fig. 13, p. 257.
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