Lot 4
Lot 4
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Two Guedras, Morocco, 1971

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

Two Guedras, Morocco, 1971

Price Realised USD 40,000
Price Realised USD 40,000
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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Two Guedras, Morocco, 1971
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1976
signed, titled, dated and numbered '25/40' and '1355' in pencil, stamped photographer's/Condé Nast credit and stamped edition information (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.1 cm.)
sheet: 2434 x 22 in. (62.8 x 55.8 cm.)
mount: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.8 cm.)
This work is number twenty-five from an edition of forty.
Provenance
Christie's East, New York, November 11, 1985, lot 355;
Janet Borden, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985.
Literature
Irving Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Penguin Books, New York, 1980, front cover and p. 83.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, n.p.
Irving Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 199.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005, pl. 61.
Exhibited
Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2006.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
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