IRVING PENN (1917–2009)

Frozen Foods, New York, 1977

Details

IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Frozen Foods, New York, 1977
dye transfer print, mounted on board, printed 1984
signed, titled, dated [image and print] and numbered 'REF: 14708' in ink and stamped photographer's/Condé Nast copyright credit and edition information (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 23 1/4 x 18 1/4 in. (59 x 46.3 cm.)
mount: 26 x 21 in. (66 x 53.3 cm.)
This work is from an edition of thirty-three.

Provenance

Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993.

Literature

John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 70.
Alexandra Arrowsmith and Nicola Majocchi, Irving Penn: Passage: a Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 222.
John Szarkowski, Still Life by Irving Penn, Little, Brown and Co., Boston, New York, London, 2001, cover, n.p.
Merry A. Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 132, p. 189.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 37.

Exhibited

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 100.

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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