Gisele, New York, April, 1999

Details

Irving Penn (1917-2009)
Gisele, New York, April, 1999
selenium toned gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated, and variously annotated in pencil with Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit and edition stamps (verso)
image: 15 ½ x 15 ½ in. (39.4 x 39.4 cm.)
sheet: 17 1/8 x 16 in. (43.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Please note this work is from the edition of 20.

Provenance

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2008.

Lot Essay

Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page.’ After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

Irving Penn

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