I can claim no special knowledge of horticulture that the reader might believe he has a right to expect of someone making a book of flowers. I even confess to enjoying that ignorance since it has left me free to react with simple pleasure just to form and colour.
Irving Penn
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Poppy, Glowing Embers (New York), 1968
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Poppy, Glowing Embers (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, printed 1989
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '15546', inscribed 'Merry Christmas with love to Pat, 1989', Vogue credit in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount); one of an edition of 19
17 5/8 x 21 7/8in. (45.2 x 56cm.)
Poppy, Glowing Embers (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, printed 1989
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '15546', inscribed 'Merry Christmas with love to Pat, 1989', Vogue credit in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount); one of an edition of 19
17 5/8 x 21 7/8in. (45.2 x 56cm.)
Literature
Penn, Flowers, Harmony Books, 1980, pp. 8-9; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf Callaway, 1991, p. 177; Penn, Still Life, Little, Brown and Co., 2001, n.p.
Further Details
Irving Penn explains in his Introduction that his series of colour studies published in 1980 as Flowers were made over seven summers from 1967 to 1973. The majority, including the poppies were shot in New York. The poppies, and notably this glorious specimen, were grown in the fields of a nursery on the North Shore of Long Island.
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