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Several of our most beautiful roses came from a modest benefactor...He identified the source of the flowers only as 'the little old lady who lives down the lane.'
Irving Penn
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Rose, Colour Wonder, London, 1970
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Rose, Colour Wonder, London, 1970
dye-transfer print, printed 1990
signed, initialed, titled, dated, notation '16250' in pencil, Penn/Vogue copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp and stamped 'signed, dye transfer prints of this image not exceeding 35' (on the verso)
image: 21 7/8 x 17 5/8in. (55.6 x 44.8cm.)
sheet: 22¾ x 19¼in. (57.8 x 49cm.)
Rose, Colour Wonder, London, 1970
dye-transfer print, printed 1990
signed, initialed, titled, dated, notation '16250' in pencil, Penn/Vogue copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp and stamped 'signed, dye transfer prints of this image not exceeding 35' (on the verso)
image: 21 7/8 x 17 5/8in. (55.6 x 44.8cm.)
sheet: 22¾ x 19¼in. (57.8 x 49cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, New York, October 5, 1999, lot 333
Literature
Penn, Flowers, Harmony Books, 1980, p. 48; Penn, Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000, Little, Brown and Co., 2001, n.p.
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