Irving Penn - Photographs Day Sale New York Thursday, April 2, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Halsted Gallery, Birmingham

  • Literature

    Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, A Work Record, p. 154

  • 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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Gypsy Family (Extremadura, Spain)

1965
Selenium toned gelatin silver print, printed 1993.
15 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (39.4 x 39.4 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, initialed in ink, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 15.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $18,750

Contact Specialist
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Worldwide Head, Photographs

Shlomi Rabi
Head of Sale, New York

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+1 212 940 1245

Photographs Day Sale

New York 2 April 2015 10am & 2pm