Irving Penn - Photographs New York Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 4 October 2018

  • Provenance

    Marlborough Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, New York

  • Literature

    Hambourg, Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes 1949-1950, p. 24

  • 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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Irving Penn

Nude

1949-1950
Gelatin silver print.
19 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (49.5 x 29.8 cm)
Signed, annotated in pencil, two credit stamps, two Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso. One from an edition of 11.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 4 October 2018