Irving Penn - Photographs New York Wednesday, April 4, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, New York, 26 April 2007, lot 97

  • Literature

    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 46

  • 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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Woman in Balenciaga Coat (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Paris

1950
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1960.
9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (24.1 x 17.5 cm)
Signed, titled, dated in ink, credit, 'Photograph by Penn' and Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 13.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $31,250

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Photographs

4 April 2012
New York