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, Moments Preserved, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, p. 94
    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. 11, p. 24
    Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, Boston: Bulfinch, 1997, p. 58
    S. Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/New Haven: Yale U., 2005, pl. 14
    Irving Penn: Beyond Beauty, New Haven: Yale U., 2015, pl. 63

  • 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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61

Cuzco Woman with High Shoes

1948
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1978.
30 x 28.5 cm (11 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 3/20, annotated, 'Condé Nast Publications Inc.' reproduction limitation notation in pencil, credit, copyright credit reproduction limitation and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £17,780

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Photographs & Helmut Newton: Provocateur

London Auction 16 May 2024