Pear with Seeds (A), New York, 1993
Details
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Pear with Seeds (A), New York, 1993
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1993
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '4⁄13' and '3737' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit, reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and museum labels (frame backing board)
image: 12 ¼ x 20 in. (31.1 x 50.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 15 ½ x 23 ½ in. (39.3 x 59.6 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of thirteen.
Pear with Seeds (A), New York, 1993
platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted on aluminum, printed 1993
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and numbered '4⁄13' and '3737' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit, reproduction limitation and edition information in ink (flush mount, verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and museum labels (frame backing board)
image: 12 ¼ x 20 in. (31.1 x 50.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 15 ½ x 23 ½ in. (39.3 x 59.6 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of thirteen.
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner 1996.
acquired from the above by the present owner 1996.
Literature
Irving Penn, Irving Penn: Photographs, Wildenstein Tokyo, Tokyo, 1997, pl. 34, p. 49.
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 84.
Colin Westerbeck, ed., Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997, pl. 84.
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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