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Mermaid Dress (Rochas), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Paris, 1950
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Mermaid Dress (Rochas), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Paris, 1950
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed June 1979
signed, titled, dated, numbered '11/25', notation '2528' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp and stamped 'In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 7 may exist' (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 19½ x 19¾in. (49.5 x 50.2cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 25 x 22in. (63.5 x 56cm.)
Mermaid Dress (Rochas), Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, Paris, 1950
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed June 1979
signed, titled, dated, numbered '11/25', notation '2528' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp and stamped 'In addition to 25 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 7 may exist' (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 19½ x 19¾in. (49.5 x 50.2cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 25 x 22in. (63.5 x 56cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby’s, New York, May 8, 1984, lot 254
Literature
Vogue, September 15, 1950; Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, 1960, p. 27; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 58; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 81; Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, cat. no. 72, p. 179
Exhibited
The Art of Photography: 150 Years, 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 11 - April 30, 1989
Detached Realism: The Work of Claudio Bravo and Irving Penn, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 6 February-1 June 1990
Irving Penn: A Collection, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 12 September 2009-6 February 2010
Irving Penn, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 22 October 2012-4 November 2013
Detached Realism: The Work of Claudio Bravo and Irving Penn, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 6 February-1 June 1990
Irving Penn: A Collection, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 12 September 2009-6 February 2010
Irving Penn, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 22 October 2012-4 November 2013
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