Details
IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
Cigarette No. 52, New York, 1972
platinum-palladium print, mounted on aluminum, printed 1974
signed, dated, numbered 'Neg. No. 52', '21/42' and 'C277' and stamped photographer's copyright credit (verso); credited, titled, dated and numbered on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 23 1/4 x 18 1/2 in. (59 x 47 cm.)
sheet: 25 x 22 in. (63.5 x 55.8 cm.)
mount: 26 x 22 in. (66 x 55.8 cm.)
This work is number twenty-one from an edition of forty-two.
Provenance
Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993.
Literature
Alexandra Arrowsmith and Nicola Majocchi, Irving Penn: Passage: a Work Record, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991, p. 205.
Sarah Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 2005, pl. 72.
Tim Jefferies et al., Irving Penn: Cigarettes, Hamiltons Gallery, London, 2012, pl. 10.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Irving Penn: Centennial, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, pl. 161, p. 254.
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. 101.

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