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

    Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York, 2014

  • Literature

    Penn, A Notebook At Random, p. 58

  • 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

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Nadja Auermann, New York, June 22

1994
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1996, mounted.
43 x 43 cm (16 7/8 x 16 7/8 in.)
Signed, initialled, titled, dated, numbered 3/11, variously annotated in pencil, copyright credit (courtesy Vogue) reproduction limitation, credit and edition stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £27,940

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London Auction 21 November 2024