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

Cecil Beaton, 1958

Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Cecil Beaton, 1958
platinum-palladium print, printed May/June 1980, flush-mounted on aluminium

signed, titled, date of image and of print, numbered '15/15' and variously annotated in pencil, stamped variously and with Penn/Condé Nast copyright credit (flush mount, verso)
image: 15 x 14 5/8 in. (38.2 x 37.2 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 26 3/8 x 25 ½ in. (67 x 64.7 cm.)
This print is number fifteen from an edition of fifteen.
Provenance
Christie's, London King Street, 16 May 2012, Lot 61.
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Irving Penn, Moments Preserved, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 85.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, p. 21.
Irving Penn, Passage – A Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf / Callaway, New York, 1991, p. 95.

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