Irving Penn - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, New York, 26 April 2007, lot 97
    Phillips, New York, 4 April 2012, lot 90

  • Literature

    Szarkowski, Irving Penn, pl. 46

  • 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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PROPERTY FROM AN ESTEEMED COLLECTION

74

Woman in Balenciaga Coat (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Paris

1950
Gelatin silver print, printed before 1960.
9 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (24.1 x 17.5 cm)
Signed, initialed, titled, dated, annotated in ink, credit, 'Photograph by Penn,' Condé Nast copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount. One from an edition of 13.

Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $15,240

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Photographs

New York Auction 11 October 2023