Schiaparelli Jacket with Tinsel and Glass, 1974
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Schiaparelli Jacket with Tinsel and Glass, 1974
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '1/25', '1827', inscribed 'Merry Christmas for Pat - souvenir of our book together. Christmas 1979' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
19¾ x 18 3/8in. (50.5 x 47cm.)
Schiaparelli Jacket with Tinsel and Glass, 1974
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '1/25', '1827', inscribed 'Merry Christmas for Pat - souvenir of our book together. Christmas 1979' in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
19¾ x 18 3/8in. (50.5 x 47cm.)
Literature
Penn and Vreeland, Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939, The Viking Press, 1977, p. 85; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 119; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf Callaway, 1991, p. 214; Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art Yale University Press, 2005, pl. 69
Further Details
This image presents 'A delicious black silk velvet jacket, embroidered with gold and mirror glass - very rococo in design. The large motifs simulate antique hand mirrors. Schiaparelli complements the jacket and dinner dress with a small hat. (1939)'
Diana Vreeland notes that 'It was in her trimmings and motifs that Schiaparelli revealed her wonderful Italian sense of amusement.' (Inventive Paris Clothes, p. 82)
Diana Vreeland notes that 'It was in her trimmings and motifs that Schiaparelli revealed her wonderful Italian sense of amusement.' (Inventive Paris Clothes, p. 82)
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