Irving Penn - Photographs London Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans
    Phillips, New York, Photographs, 9 April 2018, lot 159

  • 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 A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

33

Breast (A), New York, March 5th

1993
Dye destruction print.
26.5 x 26.5 cm (10 3/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
Signed, initialled, titled, dated by the artist, Condé Nast copyright credit (courtesy Vogue) reproduction limitation in another hand, all in pencil, credit, edition and date stamps on the verso. One from an edition of 7.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

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London Auction 21 November 2024