Irving Penn - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 1, 2014 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 1 October

  • Provenance

    Hamiltons Gallery, London

  • 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

Three Cretan Women (Without Rope), September

1964
Platinum palladium print, printed 1985.
15 x 15 1/2 in. (38.1 x 39.4 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 6/19, initialed in pencil, credit, Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.

Estimate
$18,000 - 22,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 1 October