Vionnet Lampshade Dress, 1977
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Vionnet Lampshade Dress, 1977
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1980
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '12/15' '2610' and inscribed 'For Pat, Christmas 1986' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
15 x 14 7/8in. (39 x 38cm.)
Vionnet Lampshade Dress, 1977
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1980
signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered '12/15' '2610' and inscribed 'For Pat, Christmas 1986' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
15 x 14 7/8in. (39 x 38cm.)
Literature
Penn and Vreeland, Inventive Paris Clothes 1909-1939, The Viking Press, 1977, p. 40; Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art Yale University Press, 2005, pl. 66
Further Details
The caption in Inventive Paris Clothes notes that 'This evening dress is cut on the straight - rather unusual for Vionnet at that time. Made of oyster-white silk crepe, it is overlaid with a draped fringe that flows over the body and cascades down the side, giving a most alluring and chic touch. (1925)' (p. 41)
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