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Penn transformed the flesh of such women into formally exquisite pictures with less sacrifice of their carnal reality than anybody since Rubens.
Maria Morris Hambourg
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Nude 58, 1949-1950
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Nude 58, 1949-1950
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated, numbered '12/33', notation '2322' in pencil, Condé Nast credit in ink and Penn copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 18¾ x 18in. (47.6 x 45.6cm.)
sheet/flush-mount 26 x 22in. (66 x 55.9cm.)
Nude 58, 1949-1950
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated, numbered '12/33', notation '2322' in pencil, Condé Nast credit in ink and Penn copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 18¾ x 18in. (47.6 x 45.6cm.)
sheet/flush-mount 26 x 22in. (66 x 55.9cm.)
Literature
Hambourg, Earthly Bodies, Irving Penn's Nudes, 1949-50, The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Little, Brown and Co., 2002, p. 51
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