Irving Penn - Photographs New York Tuesday, April 1, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, p. 93
    Moderna Museet Stockholm, Irving Penn: Photographs, pl. 192
    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 90
    The J. Paul Getty Museum, Irving Penn: Small Trades, pl. 67

  • 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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75

Sculptor’s Model, Paris

1950
Platinum palladium print, printed 1976.
16 3/8 x 11 7/8 in. (41.6 x 30.2 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 31/35 in pencil, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $18,750

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