Girl Drinking (MJR), New York, 1949
Details
IRVING PENN (1917-2009)
Girl Drinking (MJR), New York, 1949
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated with print date and numbered '4⁄25' and '1381' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation in ink, with edition information (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and museum labels (frame backing board)
image: 20⁄12 x 19 ½ in. (50.5 x 47.5 cm.)
sheet: 25 x 22 in. (63.5 x 55.8 cm.)
mount: 26 ¼ x 22 in. (66.6 x 55.8 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of twenty-five.
Girl Drinking (MJR), New York, 1949
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1979
signed, titled, dated with print date and numbered '4⁄25' and '1381' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and Condé Nast Publications reproduction limitation in ink, with edition information (mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and museum labels (frame backing board)
image: 20⁄12 x 19 ½ in. (50.5 x 47.5 cm.)
sheet: 25 x 22 in. (63.5 x 55.8 cm.)
mount: 26 ¼ x 22 in. (66.6 x 55.8 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of twenty-five.
Provenance
Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992.
Literature
Vogue, The New York Romantics, October 15, 1949
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 41.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 77.
Merry A Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 71, p. 112.
John Szarkowski, Irving Penn, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984, pl. 41.
Exhibition catalogue, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 77.
Merry A Foresta, Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015, pl. 71, p. 112.
Exhibited
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000– January 28, 2001.
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