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

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  • Literature

    American Vogue, 15 September 1950
    French Vogue, September 1950
    Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, pl. 35 and fig. 4
    Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective, p. 152
    Knopf/Callaway, Irving Penn: Passage, a Work Record, p. 85
    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 54
    Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, p. 158

  • 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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159

Woman with Roses (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Paris

1950
Selenium toned gelatin silver print, printed 1984.
19 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (48.9 x 36.2 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, initialed in ink, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 25.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

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Photographs Day Sale

New York 2 April 2015 10am & 2pm