First of still-lifes is life's mordant souvenir, the bone behind the flesh, the skull.
Colin Eisler
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Bone Forest, 1980
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Bone Forest, 1980
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1981
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '31/61', 'AR 671', inscribed 'Pat to remember her search for skulls' in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
11 1/8 x 19½in. (28.7 x 50cm.)
Bone Forest, 1980
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1981
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '31/61', 'AR 671', inscribed 'Pat to remember her search for skulls' in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
11 1/8 x 19½in. (28.7 x 50cm.)
Literature
Irving Penn: Recent Still Life, Marlborough Gallery Inc., 1982, cat. no. 39
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