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

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  • Provenance

    Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990s

  • Literature

    I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, London: Jonathan Cape, 1991, p. 22
    Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Chicago: AIC, 1998, p. 126, cat. no. 14

  • 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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The Angel, New York

1946
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1989, flush-mounted.
58 x 46.3 cm (22 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated, numbered 43/52 in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount.

Estimate
£8,000 - 12,000 

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London Auction 16 May 2019