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

Girl Behind Bottle Jean Patchett, New York, 1949

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IRVING PENN (1917 - 2009)
Girl Behind Bottle Jean Patchett, New York, 1949
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed before 1960
signed, titled, dated [with print date], and numbered ‘7409’ in ink, stamped photographer's edition information, copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation with 'COURTESY OF VOGUE' written in ink (mount, verso); credited, titled, dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label (mat backing board)
image/sheet: 15 ½ x 14 5⁄8 in. (39.3x 37.1 cm.)
mount: 18 ½ x 18 in. (46.9 x 45.7 cm.)
This work is one of an edition of six.
Provenance
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001.
Literature
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Moments Preserved, Eight Essays in Photograohs and Words, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960, p. 125.
Merry A Foresta, Irving Penn: Master Images the Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1990, pl. 14, p. 27.
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Passage: A Work Record, Knopf: Callaway, New York, 1991,, p.77.
Merry A Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 72, p. 113.

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