Irving Penn - Photographs London Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

  • 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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94

Still Life with Skull, Pitcher and Medicine Bottle, New York

1981
Platinum-palladium print, flush-mounted.
23.2 x 48.9 cm (9 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated, numbered 21/53 in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

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Photographs

London Auction 16 May 2019