Irving Penn - A Constant Pursuit: Photographs from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw New York Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Penn, Passage: A Work Record, p. 159
    National Portrait Gallery, Irving Penn Portraits, pl. 21
    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 145

  • 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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Barnett Newman, New York, 1966

Platinum palladium print.
15 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (39.4 x 39.4 cm)
Signed, initialed, dated, numbered 7/20, variously annotated in pencil and edition stamp on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount; typed credit, title and Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation on a label affixed to the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $27,500

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A Constant Pursuit: Photographs from the Collection of Ed Cohen & Victoria Shaw

New York Auction 4 October 2018