Lot 85
Lot 85
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Butcher, London, 1951

    Price Realised USD 87,500
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    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
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    IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

    Butcher, London, 1951

    Price Realised USD 87,500
    Price Realised USD 87,500
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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: 195⁄8 x 157⁄8 in. (49.8 x 40.3 cm.)
    sheet: 221⁄2 x 181⁄4 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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