IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)

2 Guedras, 1974

Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
2 Guedras, 1974
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1977
signed, titled, dated, numbered '1/40', notation '1345' in pencil, Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp and stamped 'In addition to 40 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 15 may exist' (on the reverse of the flush-mount)
image: 21 x 17in. (53.3 x 43.2cm.)
sheet/flush-mount: 24 7/8 x 22in. (63.2 x 55.9cm.)
Provenance
Christie’s, New York, October 31, 1979, lot 456
Literature
Penn, Worlds in a Small Room, Grossman, 1974, p. 83, cover and frontispiece; Irving Penn: Photographs in Platinum Metals - images 1947-1975, Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., 1977, cat. no. 110; Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 94; Penn, Passage: A Work Record, Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 199; Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art/ Yale University Press, 2005, pl. 61
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
Favorite Photographs from The Forbes Collection, The Forbes Galleries, New York, 30 October 2009-28 August 2010
Carolina Collects, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 9 September-4 December, 2011

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