Irving Penn - Photographs & Helmut Newton: Provocateur London Thursday, May 16, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Irving Penn Foundation
    Private Collection

  • Literature

    I. Penn & D. Vreeland, Inventive Paris Clothes, 1909-1939: A Photographic Essay, New York: Viking, 1977, p. 79
    J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York: MoMA, 1984, pl. 124
    M.A. Foresta et al., Irving Penn: Master Images, The Collections of the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1990, pl. 48, p. 61
    I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 212
    Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, New Haven: Yale U., 2015, pl. 125

  • 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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Chanel Sequined Suit

1974
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1979, mounted.
52 x 47.5 cm (20 1/2 x 18 3/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 6/29, annotated in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£12,000 - 18,000 

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Photographs & Helmut Newton: Provocateur

London Auction 16 May 2024