Irving Penn - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Europe

  • Literature

    Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Irving Penn, pl. 26

  • 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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Girl in Bed (Jean Patchett), New York

1949
Platinum palladium print, printed 1979.
21 x 15 3/4 in. (53.3 x 40 cm)
Signed, titled ‘Girl in Bed’, dated, numbered 13/15 in pencil and Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

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Photographs

2 October 2012
New York