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Irving Penn

Black Cup with Grains

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000
$12,700
Lot Details
Platinum-palladium print.
1975
22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered 2/29, annotated in pencil, copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso. Further stamped and annotated 'Of this image, originally 29 prints were made, 19 prints were destroyed 3/'87, a total of 10 now exist', also on the verso.

Irving Penn

American | B. 1917 D. 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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