Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Los Angeles
Flowers: Photographs by Irving Penn, New York: Harmony Books, 1980, p. 17
J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984, pl. 131
I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf, 1991, p. 176
Irving Penn: Flowers, Hamiltons Gallery, London, 2015, pl. 20
Irving Penn: Centennial, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017, back cover and p. 311
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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