Lot Essay
Although a stamp exists stating that there is an additional edition of prints of this image in gelatin silver, Penn has not noted the number and therefore, presumably, none were realized.
Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970
platinum-palladium print, printed 1973
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '25/35', 'P 1078', inscribed 'For Patricia McCabe', annotated 'experimental print platinum W.T. paper' in pencil and Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
19¾ x 19½in. (50.8 x 50cm.)
Five Okapa Warriors, New Guinea, 1970
platinum-palladium print, printed 1973
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '25/35', 'P 1078', inscribed 'For Patricia McCabe', annotated 'experimental print platinum W.T. paper' in pencil and Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso)
19¾ x 19½in. (50.8 x 50cm.)
Literature
Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, 1974, p. 77; Irving Penn photographs in platinum metals - images 1947-1975, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, 1977, cat. no. 109; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 111; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf Callaway, 1991, p. 190
Further Details
Irving Penn describes this group as 'Okapa warriors, men who seem to have just emerged from the Stone Age. They are renowned as warriors.' (Worlds in a Small Room, p. 76)
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