Irving Penn - Photographs New York Monday, April 9, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Artist Biography

    Irving Penn

    American • 1917 - 2009

    Arresting portraits, exquisite flowers, luscious food and glamorous models populate Irving Penn's meticulously rendered, masterful prints. Penn employed the elegant simplicity of a gray or white backdrop to pose his subjects, be it a model in the latest Parisian fashion, a famous subject or veiled women in Morocco.

    Irving Penn's distinct aesthetic transformed twentieth-century elegance and style, with each brilliant composition beautifully articulating his subjects. Working across several photographic mediums, Penn was a master printmaker. Regardless of the subject, each and every piece is rendered with supreme beauty. 

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177

Iceland Poppy/Papaver nudicaule (G), New York

2006
Pigment print.
19 x 23 in. (48.3 x 58.4 cm)
Signed, initialed, titled, dated in ink, copyright credit (courtesy of Vogue) reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount. One from an edition of 13.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $37,500

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New York Auction 9 April 2018