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IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
After-Dinner Games, New York, 1947
dye transfer print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1959–1960
signed, titled and dated [with print date] with stamped photographer's copyright credit, Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 37 x 311⁄2 in. (94 x 80 cm.)
This work is from an edition of thirteen, with ten additional, smaller prints made in the 1980s, expanding this to an edition of twenty-three.
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
Christie's, New York, April 24, 2006, lot 46;
Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 132.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 69.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 29
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