Irving Penn - Photographs London Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Hindman, Chicago, Prints and Multiples, 22 May 2019, lot 132

  • Literature

    J. Szarkowski, Irving Penn, New York: MoMA, 1984, pl. 155
    I. Penn, Passage: A Work Record, New York: Knopf/Callaway, 1991, p. 237
    Irving Penn, A Career in Photography, Boston: Bulfinch, 1997, p. 92
    I. Penn, Still Life, Boston: Little, Brown, 2001, n.p.
    I. Penn, A Notebook at Random, New York: Bulfinch, 2004, p. 28

  • 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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1980
Platinum-palladium print, mounted.
28.4 x 48.9 cm (11 1/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 5/23, variously annotated in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the aluminum flush-mount.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £8,820

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London Auction 22 November 2022