Irving Penn - Photographs London Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Europe

  • Literature

    Irving Penn: Moments Preserved, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 39 (variant)
    Irving Penn: Passage - A Work Record, London: Jonathan Cape, 1991, p. 125 (variant)

  • 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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Picasso (B), Cannes

1957
Selenium-toned gelatin silver print, printed 1984.
40.7 × 38.5 cm (16 × 15 1/8 in)
Signed, titled, dated, annotated 'Print made 1984' in ink, Condé Nast (courtesy Vogue) copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 21.

Estimate
£40,000 - 60,000 

Photographs

8 November 2012
London