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My preference for flowers [is] considerably after they have passed that point of perfection, when they have begun spotting and browning and twisting their way back to earth.
Irving Penn
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Single Oriental Poppy (New York), 1968
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Single Oriental Poppy (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, flush-mounted on board, printed 1987
signed, initialed, titled, dated, notation '15480', Vogue credit in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps, stamped 'Signed prints of this photograph not exceeding 17', 'In addition to 17 dye-transfer prints of this image there are also 12 signed, numbered platinum-palladium prints' and 'dye-transfer print made 1987' (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image/sheet/flush-mount: 22 x 18¼in. (57 x 46.3cm.)
Single Oriental Poppy (New York), 1968
dye-transfer print, flush-mounted on board, printed 1987
signed, initialed, titled, dated, notation '15480', Vogue credit in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps, stamped 'Signed prints of this photograph not exceeding 17', 'In addition to 17 dye-transfer prints of this image there are also 12 signed, numbered platinum-palladium prints' and 'dye-transfer print made 1987' (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image/sheet/flush-mount: 22 x 18¼in. (57 x 46.3cm.)
Provenance
With Hamiltons, London;
to a Private Collection
Christie's, New York, April 5, 2000, lot 32
to a Private Collection
Christie's, New York, April 5, 2000, lot 32
Literature
Penn, Flowers, Harmony Books, 1980, pp. 22-23; Penn, Passage, A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 179; Penn, Still Life: Irving Penn Photographs, 1938-2000, Little, Brown and Co., 2001, n.p.
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