...the reader will probably note my preference for flowers considerably after they have passed the point of perfection, when they have already begun spotting and browning and twisting on their way back to the earth.
Irving Penn
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Lavender Glory Poppy (New York), 1968
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Lavender Glory Poppy (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '15122' in ink, initialed and inscribed 'For Pat' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso); one of an edition of 21
23 1/8 x 18¼in. (59.3 x 46.7cm.)
Lavender Glory Poppy (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, printed 1984
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '15122' in ink, initialed and inscribed 'For Pat' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the verso); one of an edition of 21
23 1/8 x 18¼in. (59.3 x 46.7cm.)
Literature
Penn, Flowers, Harmony Books, 1980, p. 21; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 130, variant cropping; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf Callaway, 1991, p. 178, variant cropping; Penn, Still Life, Little, Brown and Co., 2001, n.p., variant cropping
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