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Auction archive: Lot number 203

Irving Penn

Photographs Evening & Day Sales
5 Oct 2016 - 6 Oct 2016
Estimate
US$30,000 - US$50,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 203

Irving Penn

Photographs Evening & Day Sales
5 Oct 2016 - 6 Oct 2016
Estimate
US$30,000 - US$50,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Irving Penn Cuzco Children, Peru, December 1948 Gelatin silver print. 10 1/2 x 9 in. (26.7 x 22.9 cm) Signed, titled, dated, initialed in ink, Condé Nast (courtesy Vogue) copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 8.
Provenance Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Literature Knopf, Irving Penn Passage, p. 61 there titled Brother and Sister, Cuzco Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, p. 13 Szarkowski, Irving Penn pl. 59 there titled Mountain Children, Cuzco Westerbeck, Irving Penn A Career in Photography, pl. 37 Artist Bio Irving Penn American • 1917 - 2009 Arresting portraits, exquisite flowers, luscious food and glamorous models populate Irving Penn's meticulously rendered, masterful prints. Penn employed the elegant simplicity of a gray or white backdrop to pose his subjects, be it a model in the latest Parisian fashion, a famous subject or veiled women in Morocco. Irving Penn's distinct aesthetic transformed twentieth-century elegance and style, with each brilliant composition beautifully articulating his subjects. Working across several photographic mediums, Penn was a master printmaker. Regardless of the subject, each and every piece is rendered with supreme beauty. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 203
Auction:
Datum:
5 Oct 2016 - 6 Oct 2016
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

Irving Penn Cuzco Children, Peru, December 1948 Gelatin silver print. 10 1/2 x 9 in. (26.7 x 22.9 cm) Signed, titled, dated, initialed in ink, Condé Nast (courtesy Vogue) copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 8.
Provenance Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Literature Knopf, Irving Penn Passage, p. 61 there titled Brother and Sister, Cuzco Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, p. 13 Szarkowski, Irving Penn pl. 59 there titled Mountain Children, Cuzco Westerbeck, Irving Penn A Career in Photography, pl. 37 Artist Bio Irving Penn American • 1917 - 2009 Arresting portraits, exquisite flowers, luscious food and glamorous models populate Irving Penn's meticulously rendered, masterful prints. Penn employed the elegant simplicity of a gray or white backdrop to pose his subjects, be it a model in the latest Parisian fashion, a famous subject or veiled women in Morocco. Irving Penn's distinct aesthetic transformed twentieth-century elegance and style, with each brilliant composition beautifully articulating his subjects. Working across several photographic mediums, Penn was a master printmaker. Regardless of the subject, each and every piece is rendered with supreme beauty. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 203
Auction:
Datum:
5 Oct 2016 - 6 Oct 2016
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
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