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

    Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, circa 2010

  • Literature

    Knopf, Irving Penn: Passage, p. 226
    Art Institute of Chicago, Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, pl. 68
    Greenough, Irving Penn: Platinum Prints, pl. 81
    Hamiltons Gallery, Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture, p. 8
    Szarkowski, Still Life: Irving Penn, n.p.

  • 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 AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION

5

The Poor Lovers

1979
Platinum-palladium print, printed 1980, mounted.
48 x 29 cm (18 7/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 48/58, annotated in pencil, copyright credit and edition stamps on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for £20,320

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London Auction 21 November 2024