IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Broken Egg, New York, 1959

Details
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Broken Egg, New York, 1959
dye transfer print, mounted on board
signed and dated '1960' in ink (mount, recto)
image: 22 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (56.5 x 47.6 cm.)
mount: 28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Provenance
Phillips de Pury & Company, London, May 17, 2008, lot 238;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Lot Essay

'[His style] is all rooted in still life, in a genuine sense. It's very carefully balanced, very precise. The other part of it is, is that one of the central issues of his photographs has to do with beauty and the different ways one perceives beauty.'—William Stapp, founding curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s Department of Photographs

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