Frozen Food (With String Beans), New York, 1977

Details

IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Frozen Food (With String Beans), New York, 1977
dye transfer print, printed 1993
signed, titled, date of image and of print, and numbered 'REF 11186' in pencil, stamped photographer's/Vogue copyright credits and edition (verso)
image: 22 x 17 1/4 in. (55.8 x 43.7 cm.)
sheet: 22 3/4 x 19 3/8 in. (57.7 x 49.1 cm.)
This work is from an edition of twenty-one dye transfer prints.

Provenance

A Gallery For Fine Photography, New Orleans, Louisiana;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2008.

Literature

John Szarkowski, Still Life by Irving Penn, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, New York, London, 2001, cover, n.p.

Lot Essay

'…their contrasting textures and vivid colors, enhanced by the sparkling white seamless background paper, and the wit and poise of their compositions, seemed like art, and almost out of place in a magazine. They evoked the still lifes of Chardin and Manet, but were now and new, with a refinement of detail and color that only a camera could manage.'—Roberta Smith, The New York Times

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