Lot 146
146
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
AN ITALIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

Child of Florence, 1948

Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Child of Florence, 1948
gelatin silver print
signed, titled 'Florence' and dated in ink (on the mount); Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 11 x 10 3/8in. (27.7 x 26.3cm.)
mount: 15 x 11in. (38 x 28cm.) (7)
Provenance
From the artist;
to the sitter
Literature
Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 47

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Lot Essay

This print is one of four prints made in 1948 by Penn as gifts for the sitter, Elisabetta Cristiana Giuffrida-Ruggeri, and her family, whom he befriended while on assignment for Vogue in Italy. One has been sold in this saleroom, October 6th, 2010 (lot 17), one is in private hands and the other is missing. This lot is accompanied by six contact sheets from the sitting, with credit and date stamps (on the verso).

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