Irving Penn - Photographs New York Saturday, April 9, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, p. 276 there titled Yves Saint Laurent Fashion (Katoucha), Paris

  • 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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Saint Laurent, Braque Inspired Fashion, Paris

1988
Platinum palladium print, printed 1992-1993.
20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (52.1 x 41.9 cm).
Signed, initialed, titled, dated, numbered 3/10 in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $27,500

Photographs

9 April 2011
New York