Lot Essay
What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn
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Four Guedras, Morocco, 1971
Details
Irving Penn (1917-2009)
Four Guedras, Morocco, 1971
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1985
signed, titled, dated, numbered '18/18' in pencil, annotated 'courtesy of Vogue' in pencil in photographer's copyright credit stamp, and stamped 'In addition to 18 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 18 may exist' and 'hand-coated by the photographer' (mount, verso)
image: 23 x 19 5/8 in. (58.4 x 49.8 cm.)
sheet: 24 7/8 x 22 in. (63.2 x 55.9 cm.)
mount: 26 x 22 in. (66.1 x 56 cm.)
This work is number 18 from the edition of 18.
Four Guedras, Morocco, 1971
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1985
signed, titled, dated, numbered '18/18' in pencil, annotated 'courtesy of Vogue' in pencil in photographer's copyright credit stamp, and stamped 'In addition to 18 numbered prints of this image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 18 may exist' and 'hand-coated by the photographer' (mount, verso)
image: 23 x 19 5/8 in. (58.4 x 49.8 cm.)
sheet: 24 7/8 x 22 in. (63.2 x 55.9 cm.)
mount: 26 x 22 in. (66.1 x 56 cm.)
This work is number 18 from the edition of 18.
Provenance
with Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
Literature
Merry A. Foresta and William F. Stapp, Irving Penn: Master Images, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1990, cat. no. 44, p. 57.
Yvonne Lehnherr and Raoul Blanchard, Irving Penn: Collection privée, Privatsammlung, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, Editions Benteli, 1994, cat. no. 64, p.89.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum/the Irving Penn Foundation/Yale University Press, New Haven, and London, 2015, cat. no. 119, p.173.
Yvonne Lehnherr and Raoul Blanchard, Irving Penn: Collection privée, Privatsammlung, Musee d’art et d’histoire, Fribourg, Editions Benteli, 1994, cat. no. 64, p.89.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn, Beyond Beauty, Smithsonian American Art Museum/the Irving Penn Foundation/Yale University Press, New Haven, and London, 2015, cat. no. 119, p.173.