Irving Penn - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto

  • Literature

    Knopf, Irving Penn: Passage, p. 40
    Simon and Schuster, Moments Preserved, p. 146
    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 15
    The Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, p. 177
    Vogue, June 1948, n.p.

  • 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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209

American Ballet Theatre

1947
Gelatin silver print.
7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (20 x 24.4 cm)
Signed, dated, and Condé Nast copyright credit annotation in ink on the verso.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 9 October 2024